EDITION RUINE DER KUENSTE BERLIN

Occupation Lama

On the road with a Mongolian Lama

Part 2, Diptych, Right Side

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A video document by

Wolf Kahlen

German, 1994/95,108 minutes

 

(see for introduction: The Lama, the Jurt, the Oracle)

In this right side of the dyptich (double film) we start with the

moment of preparations, shaving of the lamas head, to leave Ulan Báatar,

the capital of Mongolia, where new values like Bruce Lee and

Jesus and the today sanctified hero Djenghis Khan dominate,

into the far east of the country.

In Hintii Aimag, Lama Zagdag seeks traces of his family.

Everywhere he, the selftaught lama, talks to, prays with or

blesses the spiritually hungry ones. He meets his, by the years

of absence, grown up daughter and former wife, as if he had left

them yesterday, we participate in the nomad's daily life, observe the

exercises of the wrestlers, riders and archers in the

country side, who prepare for the national festival Naadam, we are

privatly invited to the 'Great Eagle', the National Champion of

the wrestlers, a friend, to whose victory another friend, a great

singer, composes and sings a hymn, practice the circumambulations

at monasteries, watch the young monks at leisure and visit a

reborn dakini incarnation ( goddess),

who practices the ritual Choed,

visit old historic witnesses, who print Buddhist books, teach

traditional medicine or other almost forgotten knowledge.

 
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