Events & Calendars One Mind film screening at Amherst Cinema

The monks at Zhenru Chan Monastery in eastern China continue to uphold a strict monastic code established over 1,200 years ago by the founding patriarchs of Zen in China. In harmony with the land that sustains them, the monks operate an organic farm, grow tea and harvest bamboo to fuel their kitchen fires.

Director Edward A. Burger has lived and studied with Buddhist communities in China for over 15 years, and is the first Western filmmaker to be granted such unprecedented access to the daily rituals and traditions practiced in this remote mountain monastery.

More than a portrait of life within this monastic community, One Mind is an experiment in Buddhist filmmaking. A markedly quiet and contemplative film, Burger has set forth to craft a documentary that is not ‘about’ Buddhism, but rather a ‘Buddhist film’. Tickets available at Amherst Cinema box office. Burger will join us for this film screening event, which is generously sponsored by the Religion Department and the Willis D. Wood fund.