Mahabodhi Documentary and Film Production Foundation

MDFPF is an authorized institution for the production of documentaries and feature films regarding Buddhist education, religion, meditation, Buddhist pilgrims, Himalayan (Tibetan-Burmese) languages, especially their grammar, literature, art, and tradition Mahabodhi Documentary and Film Production Foundation

MDFPF is an authorized institution for the production of documentaries and feature films r

egarding Buddhist education, religion, meditation, Buddhist pilgrims, Himalayan (Tibetan-Burmese) languages, especially their grammar, literature, art, and traditions. This non-profit organization is oriented towards conservation and development of the socio-cultural aspects and Buddhist pilgrimage of Buddhism. The Foundation is mainly focused on the creation of overall happiness and prosperity among the people to help them rise above discrimination based on caste or creed, s*x or religion. MDFPF releases feature films and documentary movies based on The Tripitaka, Buddhist ritual, traditional inscription written and instructed by renowned Gurus (Masters) like Nagarjuna. It also publishes biographies of revered masters and their preachings and with the purpose of conserving and spreading Buddhist knowledge, art, language and culture. In addition to the making of movies and documentaries, it also creates audio CDs about religious teachings and develops different programs that mutually reinforce each another. The MDFPF team would warmly welcome anyone who is interested in working collaboratively with MDFPF programs as whether as a volunteer, a donor-member, a consumer-member or as a participant in other related activities of MDFPF. Our main objective is to signify the unity of one world, one family, one destiny and one amicable principal for people all across the world and do this by the creation of a peaceful, friendly and tolerant social environment by establishing good relations with all political, social, religious, governmental or non-governmental institutions and organizations through extensive publicity of religious DVDs and documentary movies and through other forms of mass communication. The MDFPF makes available of several different membership options: general consumer member, lifetime consumer member, general donor member, lifetime donor member and volunteer member. So we'd kindly request you to help us in succeed in reaching our goal by becoming a member and also through any other help that you can extend. Preface
Enlightenment is the only true and final achievement of all genuine followers of Buddhism for those people who have procured their rare human life. In a general sense, painless bliss, fearless peace, unbinding liberty and Bodhi-knowledge without unawareness are together termed ‘Enlightenment’. In brief, this is also the final destination or ultimate desire of every human being. Unknowingly, our society has devoted itself to various particular fields like farming, office, industry, job, factories, social work and political fields for their lifetime but all the while avoiding devotion to the general field of Enlightenment, which is the search for knowledge of how to achieve the true happiness, peace and liberation. In a similar way, people involved in different occupational activities have either achieved physical success or have experienced failure. Even if we examine those considered successful in their careers, we cannot find any who have, through purely physical means, achieved their ultimate goal of true happiness. Just as a thirsty person can never quench his thirst by drinking salty water so no person can achieve full spiritual peace through purely physical means. Our history and nature itself is testimony to this creation of our world, which is perishable, mortal and temporary. Thus, our each and every wish is unachievable through these available physical means and facilities. In light of this meaning, why do we insist on spending our life through these physical sources, a life that is passed through indulging physical achievements without any knowledge of past, present or future is like a horse running in a field which gives no thought to turning right or left. Why don’t we take the path for happiness of each and every person, for today and tomorrow? Despite the fact that the past and future are unseen due to our lack of knowledge, we still want to know what were we were in our previous lives. What did we do there? What sort of happiness or sorrow was experienced there? Where will we be born in our next life? What kind of situation will we face there? It can be said that the answers to these questions could be perceived without the religious knowledge too. This assumes that our past life, past karma from our previous lives could be known and their effects on our present physical and mental situation could be understood. Our present sources of happiness and misery, our current health and physical, our lifespan and other things we have in this life all depend on the karma from our previous lives. Lord Buddha says that the situation of happiness or sorrow forms in the next life can be analysed today by inspecting our present Karma. Every people regardless of caste, creed, religion, or nationality should basically learn the essence of knowledge in order to know the perfect identity of happiness and sorrow so that subsequently we can make our life worthwhile from each and every side. Trying to realize of euphoric Enlightenment without following the Sutras of the Tripitaka, the Sacred Ta**ra, the effective and simple and sacred Ta**ras or the practice of meditative Sadhana is as futile as trying to find something valuable in pitch darkness. The MDFPF was developed to help us fulfill our quest for Enlightenment. Your help for this foundation is also equally essential for the operation and globalization of this foundation. General Objective:
To mitigate and uproot the growing national problem of caste-creed, socio-cultural and religious misunderstanding, jealousy, violence, fury and indifference. Our main objective is to maintain a socio-cultural and religious equilibrium, and also tolerance and understanding for all castes and creeds. We strive for the creation of amicable relations through use of the supreme principles of Mahayana Buddhism in art and Bodhi knowledge. In the meantime, our efforts will always be directed towards the carrying out of special programs to liberate people around the globe from the fear instruments of war, whether of acid bombs, nuclear bombs or other modern weaponry.

• Special Objectives:
• To produce teaching, training and course DVDs based on the core subjects of Buddhist art, meditation, yoga-sadhana and Karmakanda and to promote communication and broadcasts through television.

• To produce preaching and documentary films regarding entertaining stories based on Buddhist religion, art and meditation for children and life stories of Lord Buddha’s earlier incarnations for adults. A further goal is to broadcast such programs on television.


• To conserve and produce research-based documentary films on Buddhist heritages sites and historical pilgrimages.

• To include research-oriented syllabus in educational institutions like universities, colleges and other cultural centers.

• To prepare documentary and feature film on the biography of Lord Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, and on Guru Padhma Sambhava and other world famous masters.

• To make a documentary video album on religious worship, prayer and mani-monlam featuring Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.

• To engage in filmmaking and to run classes at various local and foreign monasteries, religious schools and Buddhist universities and to prepare course video DVDs.

• To send those course DVDs to educational institutions for teaching and training purposes.

• To establish a computerized audio-video library of Buddhist religion, art and culture.


• To carry out filmmaking for cultural programs like Chhyam, Lhosar, and traditional marriage ceremonies conducted by different monasteries, schools, educational institutions, persons, governmental, private or public institutions and then to distribute such DVDs and documentary films at low prices. An additional objective is to communicate and broadcast such documentary movies with the help of donor members.

• To organize cultural and religious research-oriented tour programs and to produce a message-oriented documentary movie based on such tours.

• To conduct classes relating Buddhism knowledge and art for disciples and Buddhism practitioners from all over the world by braoadcasting daily, weekly or monthly preaching and teaching programs via online television (Mahabodhitv).

• To broadcast continuous 3-month, 6- month or year-long programs for the protection, expansion and globalization of Buddhist art and culture.

• To collect funds for religious and cultural documentary movies from international sources and to broadcast programs with narration or subtitles in different languages.
• We intend to produce research-based documentary films, course DVDs of Buddhist art and culture, preaching DVDs, yoga-sadhana DVDs, language, grammar and astrology study DVDs . These DVDs will be intended for management during course study and teaching in Nepal as well as in global school and colleges as for study for academic credit. Rules regarding different religious and cultural programs of MDFPF:

Rules of Section A:
Regarding management of preaching and meditation program. Regarding volunteer selection and coordination. Regarding seats for masters and laypersons. Regarding decoration of Kilkhor (Mandala). Regarding attire of laypersons. Regarding obligation and discipline maintenance. Regarding time management for lunch and dinner management etc. Regarding transportation management

Rule of section B:
Regarding production of preaching and meditation documentary films. Regarding expenses for production of DVDs. Regarding communication and broadcasting of DVDs. Regarding authority and copyright terms



Rules as of Section A:
All essential tools and equipment required for organizing preaching and meditation programs should be managed by program organizer himself. (i.e person, party or institution)
As of now, we are dividing volunteer from BTMC for MDFPF volunteer management and we shall accept national and international volunteer in future for MDFPF. Comfortable and healthy chairless seat arrangement for Buddhist followers and these seats must not be arranged higher than the religious Master’s seat. Layperson should be seated with legs folded in quiet, peaceful and attentive posture. Religious master’s seat arrangement should be done in traditional and cultural manner which should be positioned straight in front of laypersons to seat and listen properly. Decoration of Kilkhor cloth from right to left with color of Panchashila flag for the program. Other materials should also belong to Buddhist tradition. Persons attending the program should wear at least red shen or shawl and also some head covering like a cap, handkerchief or turban. Listeners to meditation and preaching programs should remain calm with still heart sitting in folded leg posture without conversation and without any inappropriate looking to the right or left. Programs schedule of puja, praying, preaching, meditation, food and other aspects of the program should be arranged before the program and should be conducted according to accurate schedule. Management of transportation means for locomotion of Masters, volunteers and other persons from program venue to room for repose and vice versa. Rules as of Section B:
DVD and documentary preparation, editing and narration will be done by MDFPF as the foundation takes care of production of such documentary movies and DVDs. Conclusion for bearing the expenses whether by organizer himself or MDFPF in DVD production process should be decided beforehand with the MDFPF. For the production of DVD and broadcasting of program on television both organizer and MDFPF should work on management of expenditure. Members should contact the MDFPF to claim their membership rights. MDFPF is copyrighted under the act of Nepal Government, Ministry of Information and Communication. This foundation is entitled to receive and render its services not only within Nepal but all across the globe. Citizens of any country can receive or render services by participating in our foundation in the following roles:
(1) General Donor Member
(2) Lifetime Donor Member
(3) General Consumer Member
(4) Lifetime Consumer Member
(5) Consultant Member
(6)Financial Consultant
(7)International Consultant
(8)International Program Management Consultant
(9)International Donor Coordination Consultant
(10)International Volunteer Management Consultant
(11)Animation Design Consultant
(12)Documentary Film Production Consultant

Departments:
Department of Financial Management
Technical Department
Department of Program Management
Administrative Department
Department of Communication and Broadcasting
Department of International Communication and Broadcasting
Academic Department
National Donor Coordination Department
International Donor Coordination Department
National Volunteer Management Department
International Volunteer Management Department
Department of International governmental and Non-governmental Academic Institution
Department of National Governmental and Non-governmental Academic Institution
Department of National Governmental and Non-governmental Academic Institution
Interpretation Department
Department of Animation Design
Department of Editing and Production of Documentary and Story based movies
Consumer Department

REQUEST TO ALL
Mahabodhi Documentary and Film production Foundation is an organization that produces documentary and feature film of socio-cultural aspects of Buddhism, meditation, Buddhist history and heritage related programs, Buddhist teaching camps, cultural marriage ceremonies, puja, ordinations including all other activities related to social and cultural events. The MDFPF shoots video and produces Documentary DVDs of different activities related to religious and cultural programs. MDFPF owns its own Video editing center at Swayambhu and program recording studio for Dharma discourses and Teachings. We distribute DVD documentaries, broadcast recorded program or live through online television and possibly it’ll be soon broadcasted on satellite television with the fund raised from your financial cooperation to conduct programs oriented to conservation, promotion and development of Buddhism, philosophy, meditation and culture which is our only major objective. Therefore, you may send us your recorded religious videos or please do remember us if you are going to organize any traditional, religious, cultural or awareness related program so we can video graph your program – produce their DVDs and broadcast those recorded program and help you to make your program worldwide as well as you and your talent. MDFPF is newly born Buddhist Media organization in Nepal having intensive objective of preserving and spreading Buddha’s Teaching worldwide for peace, prosperity, harmony and humanity with small efforts of Venerable Acharya (Khenpo) Sonam Gyurme. Your single positive words, physical, material and little financial support and your love for us are priceless supports for our organization to achieve its objectives.
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