David Grubin	...	(Director)
David Grubin	...	(Writer)
Richard Gere	...	Narrator
Blair Brown	...	Narrator
The Dalai Lama	...	Himself (as His Holiness The Dalai Lama)
Mark Epstein	...	Himself - Psychiatrist / Author
William Stanley Merwin	...	Himself - Poet (as W.S. Merwin)
Michael Bacon	...	Composer
James Callanan	...	Cinematographer
Deborah Peretz	...	Editor

Summary: After 400 BC, a new religion was born in South east Asia, generated from the ideas of Buddha, a mysterious Prince from Nepal who gained enlightenment while he sat under a large, shapely fig tree. Buddha never claimed to be God or his emissary on earth, only that he was a human being who had found a kind of serenity that others could find, too. This documentary tells the story of his life.