a little more than four decades ago duriring china's cultltural rerevolution, many buddhist temples likethis one in central beijing were destroyed or defaced. today these temples are alive with worshipers. by some accounts, one out of every five chinese, 240 million people call themselves buddhist. some scholars say this search for faith is linked to china's massive environmnmental probobl. gary marcuse: i had d been filming in china since 2008, when i first statarted to memeet some o of the kind of leadingg environmentatal activists and journalilists in china. when my friend liu jianqiang said he's becoming a buddhist, particularly a tibetan buddhist, i was very curious about why.y. we'd already decided we would make a litittle documentary that would sort of show people what it is that has attracted himim, but when i asksked him just in shorthand, you know, what is it that you're looking for in a religion, in a faith, in a culture? and he said, well, you know, for 15 yeaears, he saiaid, i'ven reporting on the environment, and in that time, everything is still getting worse. so you begin