The Meridian Trust has been documenting Tibetan Buddhist teachings, culture and heritage on film and video for almost four decades.
Initial filming focused on the venerable masters after they came out of Tibet: more than 700 hours of recordings, often in Tibetan dialects, commentaries, transmissions and teachings across all traditions of Tibetan Buddhism.
Later work follows the flow of Tibetan Buddhist wisdom as revered teachers brought it to a new audience. We have many hundreds of hours of materials, recorded during the 1980s and 1990s teachings and interviews from such regarded names as H E 41st Sakya Trizin, Lama Thubten Yeshe, Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Geshe Namgyal Wangchen.
Also, at the core of Meridian's film archive are the hundreds of hours of footage from 13 UK and European Tours of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, when The Meridian Trust were either the principal or secondary camera crew. These collections include more than a hundred hours of footage of Kalachakra Initiation 1985 (Rikon, Switzerland) and materials of The Dalai Lama accepting the Nobel Peace Prize footage in Oslo, Norway, in 1989.
The Meridian Trust has also covered critical conferences connected to Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism: The First Western Buddhist Teachers Conference, The Fourth Tulku's Conference and The First Mind Life Conference.
Other materials highlight more political aspects of recent Tibetan History, for example, footage from the Lhasa demonstrations of 1987.
A further collection, recorded across four months in 1985, provides a window into life in a Tibetan Settlement in Exile in Dharamsala, India. Covering all aspects of daily life, lay and monastic, this content is augmented by additional materials from later years. There is, for example, full video coverage of events across the central three days of Losar, 1990, at McLeod Ganj.
In all, Meridian has more than 3,000 hours of materials. Most of this can be viewed online at www.meridian-trust.org. In the central area of the site is our contemporary and edited footage, whilst the dropdown menu reveals our historical collection, more than 1,000 hours of materials which we will bring online in the next six months.
Initial filming focused on the venerable masters after they came out of Tibet: more than 700 hours of recordings, often in Tibetan dialects, commentaries, transmissions and teachings across all traditions of Tibetan Buddhism.
Later work follows the flow of Tibetan Buddhist wisdom as revered teachers brought it to a new audience. We have many hundreds of hours of materials, recorded during the 1980s and 1990s teachings and interviews from such regarded names as H E 41st Sakya Trizin, Lama Thubten Yeshe, Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Geshe Namgyal Wangchen.
Also, at the core of Meridian's film archive are the hundreds of hours of footage from 13 UK and European Tours of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, when The Meridian Trust were either the principal or secondary camera crew. These collections include more than a hundred hours of footage of Kalachakra Initiation 1985 (Rikon, Switzerland) and materials of The Dalai Lama accepting the Nobel Peace Prize footage in Oslo, Norway, in 1989.
The Meridian Trust has also covered critical conferences connected to Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism: The First Western Buddhist Teachers Conference, The Fourth Tulku's Conference and The First Mind Life Conference.
Other materials highlight more political aspects of recent Tibetan History, for example, footage from the Lhasa demonstrations of 1987.
A further collection, recorded across four months in 1985, provides a window into life in a Tibetan Settlement in Exile in Dharamsala, India. Covering all aspects of daily life, lay and monastic, this content is augmented by additional materials from later years. There is, for example, full video coverage of events across the central three days of Losar, 1990, at McLeod Ganj.
In all, Meridian has more than 3,000 hours of materials. Most of this can be viewed online at www.meridian-trust.org. In the central area of the site is our contemporary and edited footage, whilst the dropdown menu reveals our historical collection, more than 1,000 hours of materials which we will bring online in the next six months.
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