[Buddha-l] The dhamma brothers--a doc. film

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"http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/13/movies/13dhar.html"http://www.nytimes.com
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Excerpt:
Ms. Phillips, a cultural anthropologist, psychotherapist and now documentary
filmmaker, cemented this bond during the filming of “The Dhamma Brothers,” a
documentary she began in 2002 chronicling a 10-day meditation retreat in
Donaldson. She interviewed the 36 participating prisoners (called “the
dhamma brothers” after the Dhamma, or dharma, the term for the collective
teachings of the Buddha) for hours, discussing their childhoods, their
crimes, their struggles to get through each day in lockup and the Sisyphean
challenge of trying personal transformation inside an often-hopeless prison
culture. 

One result is an emotional documentary about the benefits of meditation for
a most unlikely set of candidates. But until a year ago, the film was
shaping up as a different story than the uplifting one it has become.


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