CREEDS OF OUR TIMES

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

 

The Long Search - VI

A film presented by Ronald Eyre

 

Taoism: A Question of Balance-China (52 min; English)

In our search for Chinese religious experience, we go to Taiwan. A whole pantheon of gods, both local and imported from the mainland, are worshipped in thousands of Buddhist and Taoist temples. Several strands make up the religious life of the village: A Confucian respect for past and the ancestors, the cosmic pattern of the Tao that permeates all levels of existence and manifests itself through oracles, the local gods who dispense justice and favours, and the hungry ghosts of the dead who have be placated

 

Alternative Lifestyles in California: West meets East   (52 min; English))

The spiritual impulse of the time steps beyond the boundaries of religious tradition – so wrote Theodore Roszak, spokesman for the counter-culture, who is Ronald Eyre’s guide to the new religious concerns of people living in the San Francisco Bay area. Here religious ideas and life styles of East and West mingle and people brought up in largely Christian culture climate look East to Taoism and Hinduism for inspiration

 

(Collaboration: Foundation for Universal Responsibility of H.H. The Dalai Lama)