Carving the Divine

Carving the Divine (2019)

November 29th, 20191h 37min

Documentary
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The documentary Carving the Divine offers a rare and intimate look into the life and artistic process of modern-day Busshi – practitioners of a 1400 year lineage of woodcarving that’s at the heart of Japanese, Mahayana Buddhism.


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