David O. Russell’s I <3 Huckabees (2004), inspired in part by the scholar of Tibetan Buddhism Robert Thurman (father of Uma Thurman), explores a number of philosophical and political concepts. One clip is especially illustrative of pratityasamutpada (often translated as “dependent co-arising”), a fundamental principle of Buddhist ontology, popularly referred to as “The Blanket Thing.” […]

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