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Dir. Yeshe Hegan

Feature documentary | Complete sound editorial & mix

Born in Tibet in the late 1890s, Kangyur Rinpoche was acknowledged as a great Buddhist scholar and tertön (a discoverer of ancient hidden texts). He spent much of his life as a wandering hermit and left Tibet in the 1950s. Under the instructions of the Dalai Lama, he braved the dangerous journey over the Himalayan mountains to India, rescuing two tons of Buddhist texts that faced potential destruction amid a growing lack of tolerance of religion within China’s communist regime.

Kangyur Rinpoche’s journey, across the Himalayas on foot and accompanied by his young family, took over three years. Once in India, the family settled in Darjeeling, where he built a monastery, Orgyen Kunzang Choling, at 54 Gandhi Road.

“A moving tribute to an extraordinary teacher and philosopher… a meditation on the power of faith.”
– Carol Hirschfeld, Journalist and Broadcaster