Reconstructing Faith
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Country/Region:
Mainland China
Release Year: 2009
Release Year: 2009
Story:
In Yueyang City, Hunan Province, there are about 300 members of the Buddhist Nostalgia Group. In which, 80 per cent of whom are women and elderly people. Their main aim is to improve the lives of widows and orphans and to help the disabled through end-of-life care and the salvation of souls.
In Yueyang City, Hunan Province, there are about 300 members of the Buddhist Nostalgia Group. In which, 80 per cent of whom are women and elderly people. Their main aim is to improve the lives of widows and orphans and to help the disabled through end-of-life care and the salvation of souls.
Casts & Crews:
HUANG Wenhai
Directors
Runtime:
79
minutes
Language:
Mandarin
Subtitles:
Chinese, English
Festivals & Awards:
2010 Venice International Film Festival Orizzonti Best Film, Italy
2010 Venice International Film Festival Orizzonti Best Film, Italy
Tags:
#Buddhism, #widows-and-orphans, #debate
Director‘s Statement:
The abbot of Yueyang Zizhulin Zen Temple, Venerable Liao Guo, has returned to her home town after many years of travelling abroad to preach the Dharma. She is now back in her hometown, where she is building a Kunshan Temple and a stupa to house the Buddha's relics that she has brought from Malaysia and Indonesia. Construction of the stupa began in 2006 and was completed in 2009. The Purple Bamboo Grove Zen Centre is the main venue for monks' activities, where people practice meditation and debate, and where secular topics are hotly debated, such as "Does the Bodhisattva protect corrupt officials? The Zen centre is the main venue for Zen practice and debates among the monks. The Zen centre provided a place for people in the atomic state of society to meet, where they no longer felt alone and powerless.
Casts & Crews
HUANG Wenhai
Director
