Wheel of Time | Buddhist Documentary | Werner Herzog

Wheel of Time is a 2003 documentary film about Tibetan Buddhism by German director Werner Herzog. The title refers to the Kalachakra sand mandala that provides a recurring image for the film.
The film documents the two Kalachakra initiations of 2002, presided over by the fourteenth Dalai Lama. The first, in Bodhgaya India, was disrupted by the Dalai Lama's illness. Later that same year, the event was held again, this time without disruption, in Graz, Austria. The film's first location is the Bodhgaya, the site of the Mahabodhi Temple and the Bodhi tree. Herzog then turns to the pilgrimage at Mount Kailash, after which the film then focuses on the second gathering in Graz.
Herzog includes a personal interview with the Dalai Lama, as well as Tibetan former political prisoner Takna Jigme Zangpo, who served 37 years in a Chinese prison for his support of the International Tibet Independence Movement.
Learn more about this film here. shorturl.at/bpG78

[@SirJaymesDAudelée]

11:02 3000 miles of prostrating.
I did 2000 prostrations at my precept ceremony, and 10,000 in the week leading up to it. I figured that was a lot. But this monks 3000 miles of prostrations blew my mind. I’m from Canada, and that’s like going from the east coast to the west coast, and then back again. INSANE
But what a fantastic documentary.

[@IbrahimMuhammad_114]

I wonder if she really did that tho. She looked really rough tho

[@NgawangPhuntsok-vd3oe]

I have witnessed a monk prostration since 8 years I met him one the way of indo nepal border.he don't take money but some food.he travel from tibet indian state boudhgaya.

[@wordscapes5690]

Terrible what China has done to this country’s culture and religion. So desperately sad. Good to see it can still survive outside the borders of Tibet. Hope for the future.

[@manzanasmexicanas5729]

Mi corazón tiene tantos sentimientos cada vez que ve algo de Herzog. Por siempre uno de los grandes 💚

[@joe_fizz]

Thank you for sharing this wonderful documentary

[@JordanVanRyn]

Thank you for sharing this documentary. I’ve always been fascinated with Buddhism and this felt like an immersive experience. Werner Herzog really knows how to make a documentary.

[@skeletonkey6]

Werner Herzog has become the one of world’s best documentarian over the last 20-30 years 👏

[@user-hy9vm2vh2k]

Big-time

[@stanzinangmo7012]

Thank you so much for sharing this documentary ❤️

[@simeonbanner6204]

It's a wonderful documentary amongst Herzog's work. Always surprised he selected it as a theme, since he seems rather a existentialist or at least an atheist. His themes of man's struggle to survive of some personal idiosyncratic spiritual journey is hard to categorise. There's a theme of science in his work and a wonder in that yet also an awareness of the fragility of humanity, especially through natural disasters (volcanoes, meteorites and so on). I would say he is aware of western man, as distinct from eastern man meaning the deep roots of the foundation going back to the early Greek thinkers and so on. In that sense I think we can never truly embrace Buddhism since we have in our heads always an idea of control, of progress and so on. In some senses this is a disastrous course leading to industrialization and the destruction of most of the world, yet also has created incredible technologies and now Quantum computing and so on. A good example would be how western science is able to reconcile not really understanding the strange metaphysics of the quantum world yet use it to produce more technology such as encryption, mobile phones and so on. Of course this outlook on the world is now how things are and how people think in most of the world.

[@MV-vv7sg]

I think for the reasons you have stated you must change your view and see how this is the perfect sort of Werner Documentary. Buddhism (in many of its variants) is all about the human condition, existentialism and suffering. There’s also many links to this and the sort of things he experiences whilst filming Fitzcoraldo - watch the Burden of Dreams if you have not.
For me at least, I think the amazing things we have created with science are interesting but only that, useful for the mind, more specifically the ego. We would never have invented computers had we not been at war and so on. All science is, is a set of THEORIES and analogies to best understanding are representational worlds. The often claim to talk about reality, but no one has access to the mind-independent reality of things as they are in themselves. Buddhism comes close (in Schopenhauer’s transposition) to meet the world beyond representations and comes close to the world where we find Things-in-themselves - reality.

[@abraxsis]

buddhism IS atheistic. They don't really believe in any creator god.

[@RekzaFS]

It’s all ideology and so on and so on

[@theflyingguillotine3788]

​@@RekzaFSwow you got it all figured out huh?

[@keenansmith3418]

Herzogs a Catholic lol

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

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May Peace Prevail On Earth
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[@hortator1844]

Thanks for the great documentaries!

[@borninwashingmachine4582]

huge blessing, incredible power full Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu

[@milesahead69]

Thank you for sharing.

[@taidelek9994]

In native Tibetan , it is called Khang Tesi and Tso Mepham ( kailash and mansarovar )

[@joegardiner4220]

The prostrations look brutal, to think they do that for hours upon hours everyday for .... i dont know how long over any terrain. Wow

[@theplaneteers9215]

Thanks for the wonderful content ❤

[@thebutcher1346]

Don't degrade this documentary by labelling it as content

[@JunglistForLife]

The soundtrack is amazing, does anyone know where I could find this?

[@katramana6469]

Stunning

[@axelpair2208]

💀nah bro i gotta write a paper on this

[@PurgPurg]

what school was it because so did I

[@ivanandrei7323]

Bro fanum tax the essay 💀

[@SatelliteSoundLab]

29:56
this mf SPITTIN'

[@phakchokdrolma7029]

❤❤❤❤

[@harpman1876]

Beautiful vocal from 7:05 -10:16. Does anyone know who that is?

[@MattMeelo]

What is the mantra at 6:16?