Director Hiroko Kawanami
Country/Production UK
Release 1996
Length 51 mins
Format Colour / DVD / PAL / All region
Location Burma, Mandalay / Asia
Order No RAI-200.341
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In the Saigang Hills, 12 miles from the ancient capital of Mandalay are hundreds of pagodas, stupas, monasteries and nunneries which form a focal point of worship for Buddhism in Burma. In 1986 the filmmaker used to live for 15 month as a nun in the Thameikdaw Gaung nunnery. Some years later she is coming back for a visit in order to see what has changed. This is an intimate insight into the daily live of a nunnery as well a portrait of the monastic economy and its interactions with the society.
