In this fascinating documentary, historian Bettany Hughes travels to the seven wonders of the Buddhist world and offers a unique insight into one of the most ancient belief systems still practised today.? Buddhism began 2,500 years ago when one man had an amazing internal revelation underneath a peepul tree in India. Today it is practised by over 350 million people worldwide, with numbers continuing to grow year on year.? In an attempt to gain a better understanding of the different beliefs and practices that form the core of the Buddhist philosophy and investigate how Buddhism started and where it travelled to, Hughes visits some of the most spectacular monuments built by Buddhists across the globe.? Her journey begins at the Mahabodhi Temple in India, where Buddhism was born; here Hughes examines the foundations of the belief system - the three jewels.? At Nepal's Boudhanath Stupa, she looks deeper into the concept of dharma - the teaching of Buddha, and at the Temple of the Tooth in Sri Lanka, Bettany explores karma, the idea that our intentional acts will be mirrored in the future.? At Wat Pho Temple in Thailand, Hughes explores samsara, the endless cycle of birth and death that Buddhists seek to end by achieving enlightenment, before travelling to Angkor Wat in Cambodia to learn more about the practice of meditation.? In Hong Kong, Hughes visits the Giant Buddha and looks more closely at Zen, before arriving at the final wonder, the Hsi Lai temple in Los Angeles, to discover more about the ultimate goal for all Buddhists - nirvana.
性情刻薄、冷酷的守財(cái)奴埃比澤斯克魯奇（金凱瑞 Jim Carrey 配音），面對(duì)溫暖的圣誕節(jié)，卻表現(xiàn)出討厭周的一切慶?；顒?dòng)。圣誕臨近，想盡辦法去剝削他那忠誠(chéng)可靠雇員鮑勃克萊切特（加里奧德 Gary Oldman 配音）以及爽朗樂觀的侄子弗萊（科林費(fèi)斯 Col in Firth 配音）。打從一開始，埃比尼澤根本就無心享役采假，只想像平常那樣獨(dú)自一個(gè)人在家里。讓埃比尼澤想象不到是，他夢(mèng)見剛逝去的合伙人約夫馬利（加里奧德曼 Gary Oldman 配音）的鬼魂。他希望能夠借機(jī)幫助埃比尼，避免他以后走上自己的老路后悔不堪。約瑟夫告訴埃比尼，在他之后還會(huì)有三個(gè)幽靈來訪他……很快，這三個(gè)分別被為圣誕節(jié)的"過去之靈"、"現(xiàn)在之靈"和"未來之靈"（金凱瑞 Jim Carrey 配音）的鬼魂就找到了他，喚醒人性的另一面……...
