Around the World in 80 Faiths
BBC2 Friday 09 January 9:00pm - 10:00pm

2/8 - The Far East
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Rev. Pete Owen Jones presents the definitive guide to faith on earth,
with eighty rituals across six continents in the space of a year.

Pete encounters the exotic and inscrutable religions of the Far East,
from anarchic Buddhist Naked Man and Shinto Fire festivals in Japan
to enlightening Taoist monks in the mountains of China.

He visits an obscure Shamanic sect in South Korea, and finds out how
war helped to create the biggest church in the world.

In Buddhist Thailand he explores the meaning of non-attachment, and
in Vietnam he comes under the spell of a divine eye, before giving
money away to a mother goddess.