• Director(s):

    MOREL (DELPHINE)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE FRANCE, ADR PRODUCTIONS

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2006

  • Language(s):

    German, English, French

  • Rights:

    NON-THEATRICAL, TV, VOD, DVD, INTERNET

Why is science interested in meditation? Why do Buddhist monks willingly lend their brains and their bodies to scientific examination?

Buddhists have studied the nature of the mind for 2,500 years, without tools. They have developed meditation techniques to sustain attention and to transform the emotions.
These practices were for a long time not known about in the West. Today they interest scientists who are also asking age-old questions - What are emotions? What is the mind?
Thanks to scientists working on the "Mind and Life" project, who started up this astonishing dialogue with Tibetan Buddhism 20 years ago, this film takes us to the edge of new territory, attempting to redesign the relationship between body and mind.