
In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social critici...

Nicholas Vreeland walked away from a worldly life of privilege to become a Tibetan Buddhist monk. Gr...

Ivan, first tsar of Russia. History will remember him as "the Terrible. Russian people love him for ...

An intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in th...
Thich Nhat Hanh, monk, zen teacher, writer and peace activist, born in Vietnam in 1926, was the orga...

In his own way, Anatoli Ljutuk is a legend of Tallinn's Old Town - a man from Western Ukraine who ha...

Schaedler's film tells the fascinating story of Tibetan monk Gendun Choephel whose robes ultimately ...

Nepal 1950. A mysterious, unexplored country. The Swiss geologist Toni Hagen, was the first European...

Story of the merits of the revered abbot Luang Pho Khoon.

The Athos peninsula in Greece is one of Europe's last secrets. Over 2000 monks live on Athos - cut o...

The daily life of the Dalai Lama is brought home with remarkable intimacy in SUNRISE/SUNSET. Granted...
This documentary focuses on the journey of Merton, a bohemian who went from communism to Catholicism...

In the last fifty years the culture of Zen has spread far beyond Japan. Zen centers and zen retreats...

Essene is about daily life in a Benedictine monastery and the resolution of conflict between persona...

The plot of the film unfolds in the ancient monastery of Dokhiar on the west coast of Mount Athos, o...

The Cistercian monks of Austria are holy men who rise at 4:30 a.m., pray for more than four hours a ...
Drug-addicted punk musician Tara Herbener met the love of her life in India in 1996. When she overca...

Two escaped cons' only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police ...