This 135-minute presentation features excerpts from a lengthy interview by Alan Clements with the woman who has been called "Burma's Saint Joan" and "a female bodhisattva." Aung San Suu Kyi received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her leadership in a nonviolent campaign to end the rule of dictatorship in Burma. She endured six years of house arrest.
Alan Clements, the author of the book Burma: The Next Killing Fields, draws out the lineaments of Aung San Suu Kyi's engaged Buddhism. She talks about her practice of metta or loving kindness; the value of meditation as a spiritual strengthener; the importance of compassion and keeping an open heart; and her personal battles against the demons of greed, anger, and ignorance. She also shares her thoughts on the power of truth and democracy as a "revolution of the spirit."