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[MarshaV]

David,

I don't have access to television, but I was curious, and hopeful.  
Maybe it's a good first exposure for the curious.  I'll take a look at
the PBS 'Unmistaken Child'.   I've read so many books, but can't
seem to get enough.  

Thanks.  

Marsha




On Apr 8, 2010, at 9:20 AM, David Thomas wrote:

> On 4/8/10 1:49 AM, "MarshaV" <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
> 
>> I wonder how was the PBS program on Buddhism.  Anybody watch it?
> 
> Pretty simple and shallow. Kind of a Grimms fairytale approach interspersed
> with a religious travelogue of India and Tibet overlaid with dialogue by
> sympathetic Western commentators.
> 
> Much more vivid (to use Tom's term) was the Independent Lens feature
> "Unmistaken Child" that followed it. http://video.pbs.org/video/1444449040
> 
> A bittersweet but honest look at the Tibetian Buddhist practice of finding a
> modern day reincarnation of a recently dead monk by his disciple. Imagine
> someone coming into your house and interviewing you and your one year old to
> ascertain if he is a reincarnation of a beloved monk by tempting him with
> toys and prayer beads. Then running him through a series of "interviews"
> with the church hierarchy until you finally give him up to that church to be
> rename and raised a reincarnated replacement for that dead monk. Phew!
> 
> Dave
> 
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