Tulku
Gesar Mukpa
Sat Nov 7, 4 pm
75 minutes
eBar

www.nfb.ca/film/

Gesar Mukpa was three when he became one of the first people born in the West to be recognized as a tulku, a reincarnated Buddhist master. With help from Tibetan teachers like his own father, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, he has spent his entire life trying to figure out what that really means. In “Tulku”, he sets out to meet with four other Western tulkus to find out how they reconcile modern and ancient, East and West-ultimately pondering whether it might be time to abandon the ancient practice of recognizing tulkus.