Tulku (film)

Tulku is a 2009 documentary film, written and directed by Gesar Mukpo. The film details the personal experiences of five young Western men who were identified in childhood as being tulkus, or reincarnated Tibetan Buddhist masters.

Gesar Mukpo, who wrote and directed Tulku, was born in 1973, the son of worldrenowned Tibetan Buddhist master Chgyam Trungpa Rinpoche and his British wife Diana. At the age of three, Mukpo was identified by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche as the reincarnation of the late Shechen Kongtrul Rinpoche the Jamgon Kongtrul of Shechen, one of his own fathers teachers in Tibet. Threeyearold Gesar was then enthroned as a tulku in Berkeley, California.In the film, Mukpos British mother describes her scandalous marriage to a Tibetan monk, and her vision in a dream of a being who asked to be her son. When Gesar was born and was identified as a tulku, his father believed he could be a great teacher, but did not send him away to a monastery, believing it would separate him from his environment too much. ........

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