A Journey to Buddha (TV Documentary)

The series of TV documentaries was produced a decade ago to celebrate Buddhist year 2550 and, in my opinion, remains to be the most comprehensive documentary series ever made on the history of Buddhism.

I won't say that I know all the documentaries produced on Buddhism, but this must be the case, because the ones on the theme made by westerners tend to be very shallow. It's usually like a 50 minutes quick guide for beginners of Buddhism.

Thais should be proud that this documentary was produced by Thais. Only Thais can produce such a huge documentary series with this volume and quality. Frankly putting it, in other countries, networks' executives will never give a go-ahead to such a big-budget project for Buddhism, because they know the ratings will never justify their bold decisions.

For some reasons I would like Thais to translate the narration into English, and Japanese if possible, and disseminate the documentary to the world.

One of the serious problems on Today's Buddhism that the documentary suggested was that a lot of important Buddhism archeological sites in India and Nepal were being neglected and abandoned due to the lack of interest and money, because those countries are not Buddhist countries any more.

After ten years passed, the need for the concern to those historical sites must be more urgent to restart the excavation projects suspended being short of necessary budget. Probably,the dissemination of this documentary series with English subtitles through YouTube is one of the way to raise the concern of ordinary Buddhists in the rest of the world to the pressing problem.

The transcript of the documentary was published as a book in the same name, which should make the job much easier. I would be pleased to contribute to the effort only if my Thai and English were good enough.....

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