Journey of the Heart: A Film on Heart Sutra

This film has two major points of focus: the Buddhist text, the Heart Sutra, which is part of the Ultimate Wisdom Text of Buddhism, and the travel diary of the 7th Chinese monk Xuanzang, who undertook a 10,000-mile and 16-year-long journey to India to Vulture's Peak, where the Heart Sutra is supposed to have been delivered. The Heart Sutra is a dialog between two prominent figures in Buddhism: Arya Avalokiteshvara and Arya Shariputra. This dialog is supposed to have happened in the presence of the Lord Buddha at the top of a hill called Griddhra Kut, or Vulture's Peak, in Rajgir, Bihar, India. The place still exists today. This film has interviews with the following scholars and thinkers: His Holiness the Dalai Lama, B. Alan Wallace, Barbara Du Bois, Beate Stolte-Overtheil, Bernie Glassman, Dean Brian Baker, Geshe Dorji Damdul, Geshe Ngawang Samten, Joan Halifax, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Matthieu Ricard, Natalie Goldberg, Paul Ekman, Ravindra Panth, Robert Thurman, Tanahashi Kaz, Thupten ...