This Film Is About the Remarkable Friendship Between a Buddhist and Muslim in Myanmar.

) Ari Buddhism itself was a mix of Tantric Buddhism and local traditions.

Shwedagon pagoda is the most sacred site of worship for Buddhists in Myanmar.

But the basis of our conversation was the different approach to spirituality on the part of the Muslim and Buddhist traditions.

That civilization not only encompasses Buddhist countries like Mongolia, but also includes predominantly Muslim and Christian societies.

There are no Buddhist Temples here, but I have my altar, and love and compassion are the same no matter the religion yes?, she explains.

Though an age of civil war and political chaos, it was also a time of flourishing arts and culture, advancement in technology, and the spreading of Mahayana Buddhism and Daoism.

The first documentation of the cotton gin by contemporary scholars is found in the fifth century AD, in the form of Buddhist paintings depicting a single roller gin in the Ajanta Caves in western India.

Last June, tensions erupted when a Rakhine mob, reacting to the rape and murder of a Buddhist woman by three Rohingya men, killed ten Muslims who had no connection to the incident.

A noble cause, but one that was overshadowed this year by the last minute cancellation of the screening of 'The Open Sky', a 20 minute documentary film about a friendship between a Buddhist woman and a Muslim woman amidst the communal violence that gripped the town of Meikhtila last year.

As anyone who has worked in Tibet recently knows well, this was an inexactitude since at least 1996, all Tibetans who work for the government and all Tibetan students in Tibet have been forbidden any Buddhist practice, even though it is illegal under Chinese law to stop people from practicing an official religion.