VERY ALIVE MINDS

West meets East through Culture and Music

 

Alain Daniélou – Into the Labyrinth (78 min; 2017; dvd; English)

Director: Riccadro Biadene

 

The extraordinary life of the man who brought India to the West.A musical journey starting from Brittany, passing through India (Shantiniketan, Varanasi, Pondicherry…) and Europe, following the story of the French-born Indologist and musicologist A.Daniélou. In Banaras Daniélou and his life partner, the Swiss photographer Raymond Burnier made for 15 years their home in Rewa palace, on the banks of the Ganga. Here Daniélou became a Sanskrit scholar, converted to Hinduism, studied Indian classical music and wrote books about Hindu philosophy