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Bodhisattva interweaves footage shot on tour, with superb background footage of the Karmapa’s childhood in Tibet, sequences in Dharamsala, India, and film of the previous Sixteenth Karmapa.

Bodhisattva interweaves footage shot on tour, with superb background footage of the Karmapa’s childhood in Tibet, sequences in Dharamsala, India, and film of the previous Sixteenth Karmapa.

Bodhisattva captures not only the Karmapa’s disarming honesty and genuine faith in his role as a “bodhisattva”, or one born to benefit others, but also reveals much about the fascinating question of transmission of religion, or belief system, from one culture to the next. The Karmapa gives profound teachings on the importance of thinking in new ways in order to address the social and environmental problems facing humanity, emphasizing how we are all deeply interconnected. Our recognition of this interconnection through the Karmapa’s teachings in this film gives hope for regeneration.