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Title Forest of bliss / directed by Robert Gardner & Ákos Östör
Published Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources (DER), [2013], ©1986

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Description 1 online resource (90 min.)
Series Ethnographic video online ; volume 1
Summary A film without voiceover commentary, involves the viewer in an intense encounter with daily life in Benares, India's most holy city, from one sunrise to the next. It looks at specifics, and but also opens itself to larger concerns such as the eternal cycles and metamorphoses of water, earth, flesh wood and fire, wind and the spirit
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed Apr. 2, 2013)
This edition in English
Subject Death -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism.
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Hinduism -- India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh) -- Rituals
Death -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Hinduism -- Rituals
Manners and customs
SUBJECT Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India : District) -- Social life and customs
Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India) -- Religious life and customs
Subject India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh : District)
India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh)
Genre/Form Nonfiction films
Nonfiction films.
Films autres que de fiction.
Form Streaming video
Author Gardner, Robert, 1925-2014, director.
Östör, Ákos, director.
Documentary Educational Resources (Firm)
Harvard University. Film Study Center.