Masters Of The Mind...Tibetan Communities in Exile
Thursday, April 6, 2023 at 05:39PM 
In Dharamsala, in northwestern India, there is an important Tibetan community in exile, and there are dozens of others throughout the country, following the invasion of Tibet by China in 1950.
It is the capital and heart of Tibet in the land of welcome, because it is here that lives the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of 7 million Tibetans. Under his enlightened leadership, the main institutions destroyed in Tibet have been restored, with the most important, the new children's villages, where the youngest are educated in the Tibetan tradition, along with a modern education.
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Around the Dalai Lama live hundreds of monks and many great masters who dedicate their lives to study, prayer and meditation. They are Masters of the Mind.
The film shares the daily life of the community which is punctuated by toil, events, parties (New Year, opera festival) and meditation. as young Buddhist monks share between studies, debates and prayers.
We witness a ritual trance, very rarely filmed, the Oracle of Tibet, a visionary medium and we listen to His Holiness the Dalai Lama during one of his teachings of Wisdom, and discover the wealth of Tibetan art and crafts.
This community, despite its precarious living conditions still retains, after some 60 years of exile, a strong social cohesion, a strong identity and cultivates nonviolence thanks to Buddhism. It has a strength that it draws from that of their supreme spiritual guide, the Dalai Lama, the great Master of the Mind.
It is to a reflection on a philosophy with universal reach that you agree these images. A philosophy that digs its furrow in a tormented world in search of landmarks and meaning.
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