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Prime Time Buddhism

Dutch filmmaker Babeth VanLoo brings the dharma to TV.Joan Duncan Oliver

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Filmmaker Babeth VanLoo (right) speaks with artist Meredith Monk in a scene from VanLoo’s new film, Meredith Monk – Inner Voice.  Courtesy Babeth VanLoo

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“I always thought that America would be the one to start this,” says the Dutch filmmaker and media artist Babeth VanLoo. “This” is the first, and to date only, independent broadcast channel in the West airing Buddhist programs via a country’s public broadcasting system. Today, a decade after BOS—Boeddhistische Omroep Stichting, or the Buddhist Broadcast Foundation—was set up in the Netherlands, the United States still has not picked up on the idea.

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