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distributed by New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (145 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a remote mountain monastery above a bustling city lives Hyegok, an old Zen master, his conflicted young apprentice Kibong, and Haejin, an orphaned boy studying to be a monk. The old master, nearing his end, wishes to make the ceremony of his death his final lesson to his apprentice, who is struggling to come to terms with the worldly life he left behind. Meanwhile the young boy has his own awakening to mortality as he attempts to nurse a bird he...
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Publisher
Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
Guido, an Italian monk, invents a method of notating music, but is discouraged by the other monks until he is given the opportunity to share his invention and love of music. Includes information on the song "Do-Re-Mi," a glossary, and Guido's life at Pomposa Abbey.
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Publisher
Origen
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Desde las polvorientas calles de Jerusalen hasta los pasillos oscuros del Kremlin en Moscu, La Marca lleva a los lectores por un emocionante viaje a traves de la historia, la religion y la politica, con una combinacion perfecta entre accion, suspenso y misterio que mantienen la tension hasta el final del libro. La Marca es una novela intrigante donde las paginas pasan volando, ya que entrelaza los sucesos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial con el presente...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005, c1974
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (1221 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Kwai Chang Caine is a Shoalin Monk who is on the run after he killed the Chinese Emporer's nephew. The nephew had killed Caine's teacher in cold blood with a gun like a coward. Caine flees to America both to escape retaliation and to search for his brother in order to settle down in this new land. However, he can not help but to continually run into trouble from gun fighters and others as they oppress the innocent, while bounty hunters pursue the...
Publisher
Cosmos Pictures
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
American director Edward A. Burger documents his journey into the lives of China's forgotten Zen Buddhist hermit tradition. The Zhongnan Mountains have been home to recluses for some five thousand years; Burger's experiences demonstrate that the tradition continues to thrive. One of only a few foreigners to have lived and studied with these hidden sages, Burger reveals to us their tradition, their wisdom, and the hardship and joy of their everyday...
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Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
vi, 278 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
A gripping novel of the young prince who abandoned his inheritance to discover his true calling. Betrayed by those closest to him, Siddhartha abandons his palace and princely title. Alone and face-to-face with his demons, he becomes a wandering monk and embarks on a spiritual fast that carries him to the brink of death. Ultimately recognizing his inability to conquer his body and mind by sheer will, Siddhartha transcends his physical pain and achieves...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Told through the eyes of celebrated Spanish painter Francisco Goya. Set against political turmoil at the end of the Spanish Inquisition and start of the invasion of Spain by Napoleon's army. Captures the essence and beauty of Goya's work which is best known for both the colorful depictions of the royal court and its people, and his grim depictions of the brutality of war and life in 18th century Spain. When Goya's beautiful muse is accused of being...
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"In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks--young Trian and old Cormac--he rows down the river Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a monastery. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find an impossibly steep, bare island inhabited by tens of thousands of birds, and claim it for God. In such a place, what will survival mean?"--
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (780 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Kwai Chang Caine is a Shoalin Monk who is on the run after he killed the Chinese Emporer's nephew. The nephew had killed Caine's teacher in cold blood with a gun like a coward. Caine flees to America both to escape retaliation and to search for his brother in order to settle down in this new land. However, he can not help but to continually run into trouble from gun fighters and others as they oppress the innocent, while bounty hunters pursue the...
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Series
Brother Cadfael medieval mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
295 p. : map ; 23 cm.
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 8
Pub. Date
p2007
Physical Desc
12 CDs (12 hrs. 56 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.
14) Soul of the fire
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"When Shan Tao Yun and his old friend Lokesh are abruptly dragged away by Public Security, he is convinced that their secret, often illegal, support of struggling Tibetans has brought their final ruin. But his fear turns to confusion as he discovers he has been chosen to fill a vacancy on a special international commission investigating Tibetan suicides. Soon he finds that his predecessor was murdered, and when a monk sets himself on fire in front...
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Spanning two thousand years, follow four characters whose struggles resonate across the centuries: an early Christian child martyr; a medieval monk on crypt duty in a church; a Medici princess of Moorish descent; and a contemporary field biologist conducting an illicit affair. As their dramas unfold amid the brick, marble, and ghosts of Rome, they each must decide what it means to be good.
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