they say that a king began this project after a conversion to buddhism. inside almost every one of them, a buddha figure, each one of them, different. >> and i like how integrated it is with the frieze, postures. >> funny you mention that. people used to live here and the government came along in the '80s and relocated them. it was a mass relocation project. this is tourist bucks here. they relocated the entire population. we're in one of the first mass waves of tourists. european tourists have been coming here in small numbers for a long time but it's the flood gates have opened. they are building hotels like crazy in this area called the tourist triangle. >> what is this here? this is a scarf. >> as myanmar begins the shift to accommodating tourism and the service economy to go with it there will be adjustments. there will be a downside. >> what is that going to mean? how will burmese react to all of the good and evils that come with tourism? it's going to be mobility. it's going to mean prosperity for some. it will mean a lot of bad things too. it will

they say that they began this project after a conversion to buddhism. >> we started a new temple likeemples and monasteries remain today. inside almost every one of them a buddha figure. each one different. >> i like how integrated it is. >> actually, funny you should mention that, people used to live here, but the government came along in the '80s, i believe, and relocated them, it was a mass relocation project. any homes, anything that was understood, it was a good -- they relocated the entire population. we're in the first waves of tourists. the flood gates have certainly opened, they're building hotels like crazy around this area like a tourist triangle. as myanmar begins its shift toward accommodating increasing tourism in a service economy to go with it, there will be adjustments. there will be, of course, a down si side. >> what's that going to mean? >> how will burmese react to all of the good and evil that come with tourism? >> it's going to be mobility, prosperity for some. it will mean a lot of bad things too, prostitution, hustling. >> for the children. >> everybody sell t

came tholism, buddhism, islam has spiritual orders, orders of spiritual groups in islam.t is progressive, where one participates in an environment where it's really a life commitment to be a part of a spiritual community and to unfold one's self along with the other members of that community. >> so it takes about a year of orientation? >> yes, so for those people who are interested in joining sufism reoriented, we have a program like other spiritual orders do, but one learns about it and there's an orientation so that at the end of the year, one can -- it's not just for us to say is this person somebody who, you know, belongs here. it's for each person has to decide, is this my spiritual home? and one of the things that drew me when i was young, i didn't want to belong to a group. i was very independent, not wanting to belong to a group. and when i learned that the thing about sufism reoriented is one cannot become a sufi. it's not about achieving something. it's whether one is a sufi or not and it's a matter of recognizing where one spiritual home is. each of us has a sp

again the d-lam is just playing politics here am because he fears that china will split tibetan buddhism w one new dalai lama named by exiled and one by china after his death. that's right, double lama drama. (laughter) and i'm not exactly sure how they're picked, but if it is anything like the pope and they release white smoke, i'm pretty sure china has been picking their lama for years. so with the tibetan-- (cheers and applause) so with the tibetan people and the chinese government at odds over the rightful heir to tibetan leadership, there's only one solution. i will be the 15th dalai lama. (cheers and applause) i mean it's win-win. i mean hey, beijing, i'm willing to play ball here, okay. i believe tibet has always been part of china, ever since you guys proved it was with all those guns. and for all you tibetans out there watching, sure this dalai lama spent the last half century spreading the message of a free democratic tibet, spiritual enlightenment and bagging himself a nobel peace prize. but on the other hand, i have achieved nothing. doesn't that really make me the better bud

the majority of people here practice tera vata buddhism, the oldest most conservative form of the religion asserts that existence is pretty much a continuous cycle of suffering through birth, death and rebirth. >> very noisy. very noisy, yes. >> the morningstar teahouse where i've come for several years, the must-have bone deep, la pet tuk. the salad of fermented leaves, i know, it doesn't sound good, but you would be wrong to think that. take the fermented tea leaves, add cabbage, tomatoes and lots of crunchy bits, season with lime and fish sauce. this is absolutely delicious. >> you like it? >> oh, yes. >> yes, yes, fantastic. >> simple, delicious, things not to be taken for granted if you've been out of joint like this guy, zanzi. >> this happens again and again for us in myanmar. >> almost six years? >> nearly six years. all the judgments are made by the kangaroo court and the army, and the three officers sitting together, they read off, this is your sentence. it happens only minutes, like that. >> what is life like inside prison. >> nice, nice, very nice. >> i have a hard time believi

buddhism, and the church of the redeemer. >> [indiscernible] >> what did we just see? >> the reason to be alone. [laughter] i mean it is the world out there , that is hammering us all the time, demanding, suggesting, offering us solutions. buy three-ply toilet paper and your life has meaning. it is all of that. it is my reaction to the world and why i want to pull back from what is out there. just in new york, maybe i am just getting old but there is something in the insistence of everything shouting at you. >> is there a kind of -- is there an arc or an evolution in your work? >> my wife says i just make the same movie over and over. i just change the costumes. >> is she right? >> there is a point. there is a point. all these movies have to do with the individual fighting the larger world, and imagination versus reality as it is proclaimed by the media. i think reality is something we have to create every day of our lives and you have to fight against the reality that the media is telling us is reality. it is trying to get people to think and it is that battle between

. >> buddhism right now in the world are killing muslims. are being killed by christians. >> where? where? >> it's not any one religion. >> where do you see this type of brutality in the world? where are christians being this brutal in the world? i beg of you to give me an example of a systematic genocide that is happening towards christians in iraq and syria right now? there is not an example. >> it's happened -- okay, well, you can shout me down or let me talk. the systematic genocide that is happening is of muslims by other muslims. that's the worst -- >> that's not christians. >> it's not muslims on christians. >> but it's still violence committed by that group. >> extremism is the problem. >> hold on one second. >> i think that's the point. even if you were to believe that islam somehow promotes violence, which it does not. >> it does. >> just let me finish the point, man. if you look at sunnis versus shiite, there is nothing in the koran that sunni should fight shia, we see it in iraq. well see it in syria. this is about extremism. thi

does buddhism promote violence? of course not. people are violent or peaceful.depends on their politics, their social world, the way that they see their communities, the way they see themselves. >> so reza, you don't think there's anything more -- the justice system in muslim countries you don't think is somehow more primitive or subjune gates women more than in other countries? >> did you hear what you just said? you said in muslim countries. i just told you that indonesia women are absolutely 100% equal to men. in turkey they have had more female representatives, more female heads of state in turkey than we have in the united states. >> yes, but in pakistan -- >> stop saying things like muslim countries -- >> in pakistan women are still being stoned to death. >> and that's a problem for pakistan. >> so in other words, you -- i just want to be clear on what your point is because i thought you and bill maher were saying the same thing. your point is that muslim countries are not to blame. there is nothing particular, there's no common thread in muslim countries,