Tibet: "My Reincarnation" (Rebirth)

My Reincarnation - Official Trailer from Zohe Films on Vimeo

Filmed over 20 years by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Jennifer Fox (Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman), "My Reincarnation" chronicles the epic story of the high Tibetan Buddhist master Chögyal Namkhai Norbu and his Western-born son, Yeshi.

• Now playing at Laemmle's, Los Angeles
  

The film follows Namkhai Norbu’s rise to greatness as a Buddhist teacher in the West, while Yeshi, recognized at birth as the reincarnation or rebirth of a famous spiritual master (a tulku), breaks away from his father’s tradition to embrace the modern world.

Can the father convince his son to keep the family’s threatened spiritual legacy alive? Never before has a high Tibetan master allowed such complete access to his private life, and it is doubtful that another ever will.

With her intimate entry to both family and icons including the Dalai Lama, Fox expertly distills a decades-long drama into a universal story about love, transformation, and destiny.

This is an epic father-son drama spanning two decades and three generations. It is about Buddhism, cultural survival, identity, inheritance, family, growing old, growing up, faith, meditation, religion, magic, dreaming, spirituality, Dzogchen -- and past and future lives.

The film follows the renowned reincarnate Tibetan spiritual master Chögyal Namkhai Norbu as he struggles to save his spiritual tradition and his Italian-born son, Yeshi, who stubbornly refuses to follow in his father’s footsteps. More

(Oscopelabs) "Rebirth"

Why the Dalai Lama worries about rebirth

Why the Dalai Lama worries about rebirth

The Dalai Lama, leader of Tibet, with Nelson Mandela in Africa (AP)

BEIJING, China (Xinhua) - The 14th Dalai Lama said Saturday he will decide whether to be incarnated [reborn] when he is "about 90" and that China should have no say in the matter.

If he is to be reincarnated, he will leave clear written instructions about the process, the Dalai Lama said in a statement after a meeting with leaders of the four Tibetan sects.

"Apart from the reincarnation recognized through such legitimate methods, no recognition or acceptance should be given to a candidate chosen for political ends by anyone, including those in the People's Republic of China," he said.

The Dalai Lama has brought up the same issue of his reincarnation on many occasions in the last two years. More

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BBC: Jesus was a Buddhist monk (video)

BBC documentary: "Did Jesus Die?"

(NJ) "Did Jesus Die" is a BBC documentary that examines the question the life of a man who has become the most famous figure in history. It looks at ideas around the question until minute 0:25. The examination of ideas takes a logical and grounded turn with surprising conclusions that demonstrate: The three wise men were Buddhist monks who found Jesus (considered a tulku or incarnation of a bodhisattva aiming to become the Messiah/Maitreya or buddha to come). They came back for him around puberty. After being trained in a Buddhist monastery (likely to be Hemis Gompa in Ladakh, India, near Tibet). He spread Buddhist philosophy, survived crucifixion (with the help of apostles and bribed Roman soldiers particularly the one who lanced him and prevented him from drowning in his own bodily fluids), and escaped Israel to the ancient Jewish enclave of Kashmir, Afghanistan where he died and was entombed as a respected sage (St. Issa) at the age of 80 (the same age the Buddha passed into final nirvana).