Synopsis
A five part documentary series for TV. With the U.S. embroiled in conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, fighting terrorists around the world, ever fearful of new attacks here at home, how are Americans to maintain equilibrium, to live daily lives of relative peace? From community-minded monks in gang-ridden, Stockton, California, to a reluctant Tibetan savant living in the outer reaches of Wyoming, to overworked new immigrants struggling to make it in Chicago, to all-American children growing up in idyllic Marin County, California, Waging Peace tells the stories of those who are fighting the war at home – the war of self with others and the war of self with self – who, through different Buddhist practices, are discovering new non-violent ways of being. And they are winning.
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