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2 unusual facts about Doing Time, Doing Vipassana


Prison contemplative programs

Doing Time, Doing Vipassana released in 1997 documented a large scale meditation program at Tihar Prisons in India with over a thousand inmates.

She introduced yoga and large scale meditation programs at that prison and these programs were filmed and released as the documentary Doing Time, Doing Vipassana.


Doing Time, Doing Vipassana

The San Francisco Chronicle wrote of the film wining the Golden Spire Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival when noting its 2005 theatrical release.

Doing Time, Doing Vipassana is a 1997 Israeli independent documentary film project by two women filmmakers from Israel, Ayelet Menahemi and Eilona Ariel about the use of Vipassana as a rehabilitation method and its impact on foreign and Indian prisoners.


see also

The Dhamma Brothers

The Dhamma Brothers has been compared with another documentary, Doing Time, Doing Vipassana (released in 1997), which documented a large scale meditation program at Tihar Prisons in India with over a thousand inmates using the same meditation retreat format.