![]() ![]() Now it seems people can talk about little else. Yet until the release of Wild Wild Country, Netflix’s latest hit documentary series directed by brothers Mclain and Chapman Way, it had not entered the cultural conversation in the same way as those movements. The cult that formed was as paranoid as scientology, as bizarre as Jonestown, and as controlled as the Manson family. ![]() They called it Rajneeshpuram, and when it was ready, Rajneesh and his followers relocated to the US. They built a giant dam, an airport, an electricity station and a meditation centre that could hold 10,000 people. The land was largely uninhabitable but he sent his followers ahead to create a utopia. Presenting Siddhartha's illustrious journey of being born in the lap of luxury as a prince to his growing years to denouncing his throne and living the life of an ascetic to attaining 'The Awakening' is Zee TV's next historical magnum opus 'Buddha' produced by Spice Studios.Rajneesh, who died in 1990, was a popular spiritual leader in India, attracting thousands of followers – called sannyasins or “orange people” – to practise free love and take part in his unusual style of meditation: lots of primal screaming followed by dancing as if Fatboy Slim had just come on to Glastonbury’s Pyramid stage.īy the 1980s he was at odds with the government in India and so decided to buy a ranch in Oregon. For instance, did you know that it was Prince Siddharth who pioneered elephant warfare in his time? Do any of us even know what he was like, as a child? What were the influences that shaped his thinking as a youth? We know the leader and his school of thought, but little do we know about the beautiful person within. Yet, so much remains to be explored about this powerful, magnetic thought leader who woke up to the 'Ultimate Truth' under the Bodhi Tree. We have all read about Buddha at one point or the other. It's a Way of Life!" If a man who walked the earth in the year 500 BCE had the vision to say something that remains so relevant in the year 2013, it is no wonder, then, that he is counted amongst the most important personalities to have been born in the recorded history of Nepal - Buddha! "Believing in Yourself is Not a Religion. ![]()
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