Carving the Divine (2019)
• November 29th, 2019 • 1h 37min
Documentary
Overview
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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