The Matrix and Mahayana Buddhism

Staff and students of the Faculty of Divinity in Cambridge enjoyed the first virtual Film Club via Zoom on 20 April 2020. Dr Ankur Barua spoke about the “translation” of Indic religions into film, elaborating on conceptions of the self in Indo-European philosophy of religion as a way of introducing the Mahayana Buddhist motif of radical altruism through the lenses of The Matrix. Preparatory reading included this article by James Ford on Buddhism, Christianity, and The Matrix: https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/jrf/vol4/iss2/1/