Rate: The Awakening
Using a scale from 0-lifeless to 10-ecstatic, please rate activities that apply to this movie.![](images/no-image-movie-mid.png)
The film parallels the short treatise The Awakening of Faith by Asvaghosha which provides a comprehensive summary of the essentials of Mahayana Buddhism. That treatise discusses the question of how man can transcend his finite state and participate in the life of the infinite while still remaining in the midst of the phenomenal order.