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  • 60 min | Documentary
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Science for Nuns/Monks
60 min | Documentary
My documentary Science for Monks/Nuns (SFM/N: working title) re-imagines spirituality and science by taking audiences on a visual, intellectual and experiential adventure into how these complement and disturb each other. In 1991 His ...See moreMy documentary Science for Monks/Nuns (SFM/N: working title) re-imagines spirituality and science by taking audiences on a visual, intellectual and experiential adventure into how these complement and disturb each other. In 1991 His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama initiated the Science for Monks (SFM) project. The mission of SFM is to allow Buddhist monks, and, increasingly, Buddhist nuns, to move more explicitly into working with formal scientific arguments to deepen their knowledge of both spirituality and science. The narrative will focus on one nun, Lhadron, as she travels to her home near Ladakh (by bus, and walking ) and then back to her nunnery in Dharamsala. Verité footage of her, with her peers and family, will illuminate how her learning of physics has shaped, and disrupted, her religious, familial and social relationships. The goal of the documentary is to offer to audiences new insights on the relationships between spirituality and science. Such discussions have never been as critical as they at the moment, given the vast amount of information at our fingertips, combined, simultaneously, with deep denials of the importance of science, often drawing on spiritual/religious rationales. See less
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Director
Kum-Kum Bhavnani
Producer
Kum-Kum Bhavnani
Cinematographer
Skye Borgman
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