The Boy Mir: Struggle as the West’s war fails

(Seventhartproduction) Following the international hit "The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan," THE BOY MIR covers not one year but ten. It tracks the cheeky, enthusiastic Mir from a childish eight to a fully grown 18-year-old, a journey to adulthood in one of the toughest places on Earth, a journey that mirrors the story of Afghanistan.

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The Boy Mir: One boy’s struggle and the failure of the West’s war [on Afghanistan]

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John Clossick thinks that The Boy Mir offers a stunning account of the trials of life in Afghanistan.

Six months before 9/11, shocking media images appeared of the Taliban government dynamiting the 1,450-year-old Buddha statues at Bamiyan in central Afghanistan. The demolition in March 2001 followed a Taliban edict that all statues be destroyed.

It brought the regime’s determination to impose a severe interpretation of Islam on Afghanistan into sharp international focus. The act shocked the West, although previously there had been little interest in the disastrous effects of a Western economic blockade on the country.

No one had commented much on the thousands of children who suffered from malnutrition as a result or were maimed by land mines. The visual shock of this destruction is both the starting point and the counterpoint for this affecting and strikingly shot documentary. More

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• PHOTOS: A journey through India
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Is Justin Bieber like the Buddha?

(He is to Shia LeBeouf) Rosie Gray (BlackBookMag.com)

Shia LaBeouf: Justin Bieber is "like Buddha"

Barring more death threats to poor, sweet Selena Gomez, The Bieber has new accolades to anger haters of her kissing exploits.

(July 1, 2011) Shia LaBeouf appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night and had a lot to say about Justin Bieber. He's "the bomb! He's like a 16-year-old Frank Sinatra."

He even "has a presence like Buddha, like a young prince... I went up to him, I wanted to say hi. Security was ready to take me down. Bieber does this two-finger wave thing like, 'He's OK.' "

The topic came up because of that super-adorable video Selena Gomez posted on YouTube of her meeting LaBeouf and freaking out because he's "soooo cute!" Did Justin have a problem with that? Source

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Nepal's Buddha Boy (Discovery Channel video)

(BuddhaBoyVideos) Five-part documentary on Nepal's "Buddha Boy"about Ram Bahadur Bomjon who has been meditating for years without food or water. He is thought by many to be a bodhisattva, being reborn to become a supremely enlightened buddha with the capacity to teach and establish a dispensation. Therefore, there are throngs of followers seeking to encourage him, bask in his boundless compassion and goodness, and the rarity of such a feat. Meditation in the vicinity of his forest must be more fruitful and inspired (were it not for the hullabaloo created by the sort of devotional pandemonium that runs contrary to what he is trying to accomplish).