- Choboi, 87, Mongol, Monk, Choed-pa/
Choboi, 87, Moench, Lama, Choed-pa
- A video document by
- Wolf Kahlen
- German, 1996/97, 53 minutes
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- A hand full of (very) old surviving monks of Mongulia are
- accumulators
- of the secret spiritual traditions and lineages
- and of hold back historic knowledge of the extinction
- of Tibetan Buddhism some 70 years ago.
- As an accumulator they have stored the wisdom or ceased it.
- Some cells of the batteries are dead already.
- As an accumulator delivers its energy regardless to anything
- connected, they may use their knowledge
- for the secular as well as for profane interests.
- And they do so.
- Choboi Lama, 87 years old, practises Choed, a ritual of
- Sacrificing the Ego, symbolically of his own body,
- day by day, night by night.
- The document presents the entire ritual in its shortest
- version. As far as non-initiated lay man may see it. It quotes
- the essential text passages, but does not show the secret
- practices on cemeteries. These I saw but I would never show.
- You don't do that as a Buddhist.
- It should
- only be depicted in works of art.
