Insight and creativity in the tradition of Otsu-e folk paintings

A sublime expression of the Wheel of Life and Death

Exploring Japanese “Otsu-e” folk painting

Editor’s note: David Brazier is a Buddhist teacher, writer, and psychotherapist. He is President at Instituto Terapia Zen Internacional in Spain and the head of the Amida Order in the United Kingdom.

 The Book of the Dead, originally known in Japanese as Shisha no Sho– it was also translated as “The Book of a Dead Person”. This film is a Japanese stop motion animation feature directed by Kihachiro

It has been literally years since I watched a documentary and thought it was objectively good (liking it or disliking it is a subjective thing), because too often documentaries about the humanities li