January 20, 2011 (Sampurn Wire): Ravi Verma, a California based film maker who is the CEO of the Telecommunication software and services in the Silicon Valley and is the biggest ERP or the Entrepreneur Resource Planning Systems of the state of California, has reportedly come down all the way to his home district Katihar to shoot for a documentary.

The film maker who is a native of the place which is nearly 350 km from Patna in Bihar in India, has come down with a 15 member Hollywood crew to shoot for authentic Buddhist pilgrimage sites that are an integral part of this country.

According to reports in tabloids, the film maker is in the process to make a documentary on the Chinese Buddhist monk Hiuen Tsang and his very educative trip to India during the medieval period. The documentary titled Hridayasutaram is being picturized in the entire Buddhist centric belt of Bihar namely Bodh Gaya, Rajgir and Nalanda. The crew is also scheduled to travel to Sarnath in U.P and to Lumbini in Nepal, where Gautam Buddha was born.

According to reports, the film maker has been inspired to make the documentary for the world audiences as he wants to spread the message of how rich the culture and heritage that the state of Bihar boasted once upon a time in history.

The title Hridayasutram is actually a part of the Buddhist collection titled Mahaprajnaparamita sutra, which was the main reason for inciting the famous monk Hieun Tsang to visit India during those days. The monk had spent around 17 years in India and then had gone back to China taking along with him three copies of the sacred text. Later, he had translated it into Chinese.

Hieun Tsang, who had stayed for 12 years in Nalanda University has mentioned all the details about it and his entire experience in India in his autobiography Great Tang Records on the western regions and this is reportedly considered to be one of the most important and authentic firsth and account of South Asia during those times.

--Sampurn Wire