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\"\"<\/a>\u00a0Tulku by\u00a0Gesar Mukpo is a documentary about his own journey and that of other young western Tulkus who have all\u00a0been recognised,\u00a0when children, as reincarnations of Tibetan Lamas. The recognition of western children as Tulkus\u00a0first started in the mid-1970s and the film explains how this\u00a0practice has created stability politically and spiritually in Tibetan society for 800 years but has not transferred easily into western culture. For most of these young men there has\u00a0been a conflict between the modern western culture that they have been raised in and the traditional Tibetan culture of their past lives.<\/p>\n

Gesar was the son of\u00a0 Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche\u00a0 and then was recognised as the reincarnation of\u00a0 Trungpa’s teacher Jamgon Kongtrul. Gesar has not had a closeted monastic upbringing and with a British mother has lived all over the world in America, England, India. He is a filmmaker, has a child and obviously has experienced the ups and downs of married life. In other words Gesar leads a\u00a0 very normal western life.\u00a0 At the same time he is seen by many Tibetan Buddhists as someone\u00a0 who is supposed, as a Tulku,\u00a0 to be revered and special .\u00a0 He examines not only his own life and what it means for him to have the title Tulku but travels to India, Nepal as well as the USA and Canada to meet other\u00a0 western born Tulkus who are similarly struggling to make sense of a destiny that has been thrust upon them. Wyatt born in California, is studying in India\u00a0 and seems more open to a\u00a0 life as Tulku whereas Reuben , who was born in Amsterdam and spent three years in a monastery in India, has become cynical about the Tulku system and Tibetan Buddhism in general.\u00a0 Nevertheless Reuben has decided to MC at certain festivals as a Tulku because it seems\u00a0 to “make people happy”.<\/p>\n

It seemed to me that the film, although ostensibly debating the Tulku system, also\u00a0 brings up questions for all of us about how far we go in living our lives according to the expectations others have of us.\u00a0 Happily, one of Gesar’s teachers\u00a0 Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche is not critical of Gesar’s questioning of the system and he seems in fact to bring a strong dose of grounded good sense as he\u00a0 asks whether it might be time to abandon the practice of recognizing Tulkus.\u00a0 Ultimately Gesar himself, although clearly questioning\u00a0 the practice concludes that for him, on a personal level, being a\u00a0 Tulku is an opportunity to be connected with his roots in Tibetan culture.<\/p>\n

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