Chaudhuri, Shohini and Clayton, Sue (2013) Clouds of Unknowing: Buddhism and Bhutanese Cinema. In: Storytelling in World Cinemas: Contexts. Wallflower, 157 - 171. ISBN 9780231162050. Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231163378.0...
Chaudhuri, Shohini and Clayton, Sue (2013) Clouds of Unknowing: Buddhism and Bhutanese Cinema. In: Storytelling in World Cinemas: Contexts. Wallflower, 157 - 171. ISBN 9780231162050. Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231163378.0...
Chaudhuri, Shohini and Clayton, Sue (2013) Clouds of Unknowing: Buddhism and Bhutanese Cinema. In: Storytelling in World Cinemas: Contexts. Wallflower, 157 - 171. ISBN 9780231162050. Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231163378.0...
Abstract
This chapter illustrates how Buddhism's holistic perspective on what constitutes a dream and what constitutes reality impacts the way characters in Bhutanese film are presented. Instead of a hero with individual human subjectivity being the controlling force of the narrative, the ‘hero's’ journey is decentred as multiple realities. The cultural encounter of one of this chapter's authors — as a screenwriter and director from the ‘West’ working on a collaborative film project with Bhutanese partners — illustrates the way those Buddhist principles shape the trajectory in which a film story can go. Religion here is not approached as a system of belief per se, but as a cultural system — the focus is not so much on religious beliefs, but on the social and cultural dimensions that religions carry.
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | dramatic arts, film, Bhutan, Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, Rinpoche, Clayton, Sue, Chang hup the gi tril nung, Jumolhari, Travellers and Magicians, Mahayana Buddhism, cosmology, animism, storytelling, unfinished work, Khyentse, Jamyang; Khyentse Jamyang; Khyentse Norbu; Norbu, Khyentse |
Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1993 Motion Pictures |
Divisions: | Faculty of Humanities > Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, Department of |
Depositing User: | Jim Jamieson |
Date Deposited: | 10 Jan 2012 12:17 |
Last Modified: | 15 Mar 2018 13:15 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/1841 |