For those of you in the San Francisco area, there’s a feature documentary tomorrow and Thursday on shugendō, Japanese mountain asceticism, in the modern age. It looks really amazing, so see the site and trailer below for more information!

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Next week (6 & 9 December) there will be a pair of screenings of the feature documentary “Shugendo Now” in the San Francisco Bay area during the International Buddhist Film Festival. Please see full screening details below. You are invited to view our trailer and accompanying press materials at the following site:

www.shugendonow.com

See the URL below for a review by Paul Swanson that features our and two other recent films on Japanese religions (“Where Mountains Fly” by Sandra and Carina Roth & “Shugen: Haguro-san Aki-no-mine” by Kitamura Minao) in the fall 2010 issue of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies.

Issue 37, number 2, article # 861

http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/publications/jjrs/jjrs_cumulative_list.htm#latestissue

SHUGENDO NOW AT THE INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST FILM FESTIVAL

6 December 2010
California Film Institute
San Rafael, California 7pm

http://www.cafilm.org/rfc/films/1476.html

9 December 2010
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, California 7:30 pm

http://www.ybca.org/tickets/production/view.aspx?id=12338

Full IBFF program and events calendar is available here:

http://www.cafilm.org/rfc/films/1458.html

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Mark Patrick McGuire
Humanities / Campus Sustainability Initiative
John Abbott College

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Image from Happenstand