Tulku (2009)

Tulku plot

Gesar Mukpo was three years old when he was one of the first Westerners to be recognized as a tulku – the current incarnation of a Buddhist master. He spends his whole life trying to figure out what that really means. Tibetan teachers – including Gesar's father, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche – came to the West from the 1960s. In the mid-1970s, they began to recognize Western children as tulkus. A system that had provided spiritual power and authority to Tibetan society for 800 years was suddenly transplanted into an entirely different culture. Individual tulkus like Gesar were stuck in the middle. In this personal documentary, Gesar sets out to meet other tulkus, young people struggling to unite East and West, the modern culture in which they were born and the ancient Tibetan culture from which they were reborn. During his travels through Canada, the United States, India and Nepal, he encounters four other tulkus who try to grasp the meaning of this profound dilemma.

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