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''The Dhamma Brothers'' is a documentary film released in 2007 about a prison meditation program at Donaldson Correctional Facility near Bessemer, Alabama. The film features four inmates, all convicted of murder, and includes interviews with guards, prison officials, local residents and other inmates, and reenactments of their crimes.〔 The soundtrack includes music by Low, New Order and Sigur Rós. The film was directed by Jenny Phillips, a cultural anthropologist and psychotherapist, Andrew Kukura, a documentary filmmaker, and Anne Marie Stein, a film-school administrator. In 2008 Phillips released ''Letters from the Dhamma Brothers: Meditation Behind Bars'' (ISBN 1-92870-631-2), a book based on follow-up letters with the inmates. ''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.〔 == The Meditation Program == Director Jenny Phillips was largely responsible for the meditation program's inception at the prison.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Dhamma Brothers )〕 Phillips had previously studied prison culture in Massachusetts. In 1999, she heard that prisoners at Donaldson were practicing meditation and she then organized the first ten-day intensive retreat there in January 2002.〔(Publishers press release about the film )〕 Phillips believes that was the first time a ten-day retreat had been held in a United States maximum-security prison such as Donaldson.〔 Previous US courses had been in county jails.〔("Vipassana Meditation In American Prisons" ), North American Vipassana Prison Project〕 The meditation program taught was Vipassana meditation as taught by S.N. Goenka. The first ten-day intensive at the prison occurred in January 2002 with twenty inmates. The film includes material from the second ten-day intensive meditation retreat held in May 2002 with thirty seven inmates and a follow up three-day retreat and interviews in January 2006.〔 Each retreat consisted of a rigorous daily schedule and was held in complete silence. Convicted murderer Grady Bankhead described the retreat as, "tougher than his eight years on Death Row."〔(New York Times review of The Dhamma Brothers by Jeannette Coutsoulis, April 11, 2008 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Dhamma Brothers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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