In this fascinating documentary, historian Bettany Hughes travels to the seven wonders of the Buddhist world and offers a unique insight into one of the most ancient belief systems still practised today.Buddhism began 2,500 years ago when one man had an amazing internal revelation underneath a peepul tree in India. Today it is practised by over 350 million people worldwide, with numbers continuing to grow year on year.In an attempt to gain a better understanding of the different beliefs and practices that form the core of the Buddhist philosophy and investigate how Buddhism started and where it travelled to, Hughes visits some of the most spectacular monuments built by Buddhists across the globe.Her journey begins at the Mahabodhi Temple in India, where Buddhism was born; here Hughes examines the foundations of the belief system - the three jewels.At Nepal's Boudhanath Stupa, she looks deeper into the concept of dharma - the teaching of Buddha, and at the Temple of the Tooth in Sri Lanka, Bettany explores karma, the idea that our intentional acts will be mirrored in the future.At Wat Pho Temple in Thailand, Hughes explores samsara, the endless cycle of birth and death that Buddhists seek to end by achieving enlightenment, before travelling to Angkor Wat in Cambodia to learn more about the practice of meditation.In Hong Kong, Hughes visits the Giant Buddha and looks more closely at Zen, before arriving at the final wonder, the Hsi Lai temple in Los Angeles, to discover more about the ultimate goal for all Buddhists - nirvana.

在这部引人入胜的纪录片中，历史学家Bettany Hughes游历了佛教世界的七大奇迹，为我们提供了一种独特的视角，让我们得以了解至今仍在使用的最古老的信仰体系之一。佛教始于2500年前，当时在印度，一名男子在一棵菩提树下发现了一个惊人的内在启示。今天，全世界有3.5亿多人在使用这种方法，而且人数还在逐年增加。为了更好地理解构成佛教哲学核心的不同信仰和实践，并调查佛教是如何起源和传播到哪里的，休斯参观了世界各地佛教徒建造的一些最壮观的纪念碑。她的旅程始于印度的摩诃菩提寺，那里是佛教的诞生地;休斯在这里检视信仰体系的基础-三宝。在尼泊尔的布哈纳塔，她深入研究了佛法的概念——佛陀的教导;在斯里兰卡的佛牙寺，贝塔尼探索了因果报应，即我们的有意行为将在未来得到反映。在泰国的Wat Pho寺，休斯探索了轮回，佛教徒寻求通过获得觉悟来结束的无休止的生与死的循环，然后前往柬埔寨的吴哥窟学习更多关于冥想的实践。在香港，休斯参观了大佛，更近距离地观察了禅宗，然后来到了最后的奇迹，洛杉矶的喜来寺，以发现更多关于所有佛教徒的终极目标——涅槃。

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