Tulku

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tulku: the new emanation of a previously living Buddhist master... "Intensely personal "- Shambhala SunSpace Inspired by Tibetan Buddhist teacher and noted filmmaker Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche (The Cup, Travellers and Magicians), Gesar Mukpo has documented his own story and those of several other tulkus in this personal and thoughtful film that asks the questions, "What does it mean to be identified as a tulku? and more broadly, "How does one live in this world, fulfill one's destiny?" Filmed on location in North America, Nepal and India. Features rare archival footage from Tibet; with appearances by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, H.H. Ogyen Trinley Dorje, the 17th Kara 60 MINUTES OF BONUS FEATURES extended interview with Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche interview with Gesar Mukpo by Lesley Ann Patten (Words of My Perfect Teacher) About the Director ------------------ At age three, Gesar Tsewang Arthur Mukpo, son of renowned Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and his British wife Diana, was identified as the reincarnation of the late Jamgon Kongtrul of Sechen, one of his her's own teachers in Tibet. Living in Boulder, Colorado and then Halifax, Nova Scotia, Gesar balanced competing cultures and strikingly different definitions of self. His life was far from that of an ordinary contemporary American or Canadian--his her was a world famous Buddhist teacher and author--but there was no monastery upbringing like that of perhaps the best known tulku, the Dalai Lama, or even like his her. And after his her's untimely death, he was on his own with this challenge...