The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries
Season 1, Episode 25: Eastern Spirituality - The Road to Enlightenment
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The world's religious beliefs as determined by compass points group the major faiths into Western spirituality (Christians, Jews and Muslims) and Eastern spirituality (Buddhist or Hindu). These faiths have much in common in the questions they ask, yet their differences in tradition are quite pronounced. In the West, death is the end of the human experience while in the East, it is on step in a continuing cycle. In the West, happiness can be achieved by the ultimate fulfillment of all desires, while in the East, fulfillment is achieved by the abolishment of all desires. In the West, there is no brook for ambiguity, while the Eastern path to enlightenment requires relinquishing the need for certainty.
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
Archaeology: Unearthing Our Past
Episode 2
Howard Carter and the Tomb of Tutankhamun
Episode 3
Colonel Lawrence's War - T.E. Lawrence and Arabia
Episode 4
From Slavery to Freedom
Episode 5
Theodore Roosevelt and The American Century
Episode 6
Ecology - Pulse of the Planet
Episode 7
American Dreams - Norman Rockwell & The Saturday Evening Post
Episode 8
Art Rebellion - The Making of the Modern
Episode 9
Edgar Degas - Reluctant Rebel
Episode 10
Braque & Picasso - A Collaboration Cubed
Episode 11
Giacomo Puccini - Music of the Heart
Episode 12
It's Opera!
Episode 13
The Archduke's Last Journey - End of an Era
Episode 14
Powder Keg - Europe 1900 to 1914
Episode 15
Sigmund Freud - Exploring the Unconscious
Episode 16
Carl Jung and the Journey to Self Discovery
Episode 17
Psychology - Charting the Human Mind
Episode 18
Seeking Truth - The Life of Leo Tolstoy
Episode 19
Unquiet Voices - Russian Writers and the State
Episode 20
Aristotle - Creating Foundations
Episode 21
Ancient Questions - Philosophy and Our Search for Meaning
Episode 22
Jiddu Krishnamurti - The Reluctant Messiah
Episode 23
Annie Besant - An Unlikely Rebel
Episode 24
Medicine in the Middle Kingdom
Episode 25
Eastern Spirituality - The Road to Enlightenment
Episode 26
Thomas Edison - Lighting Up the World
Episode 27
Invention and Innovation - What's Behind a Good Idea?
Episode 28
The Mystery of Edward Stratemeyer
Episode 29
Wanted: Dead or Alive - Pancho Villa and the American Invasion of Mexico
Episode 30
General John J. Pershing and His American Army
Episode 31
George S. Patton - American Achilles
Episode 32
Easter Rising - The Poets' Rebellion
Episode 33
The Passions of William Butler Yeats
Episode 34
Sean O'Casey vs. Ireland
Episode 35
Ireland - The Power of the Poets
Episode 36
Winston Churchill - The Lion's Roar
Episode 37
Demanding the Vote - The Pankhursts and British Suffrage
Episode 38
Fighting for the Vote - Women's Suffrage in America
Episode 39
Historical Lecture: The Promise of Progress