- The Lama, the Jurt, the Oracle
- On the road with a Mongolian Lama
- Part 1, Diptych Left Side/
- A video document by
- Wolf Kahlen
-
Der Lama,die Jurte, das Orakel
Teil 1 Diptychon, linke Seite - Unterwegs mit
einem Lama in der Mongolei
- German, 1994/95, 108 minutes
- 1994 Wolf Kahlen spent two months with the Mongolian Lama Zagdag
- on the road, in the jurts or on the backs of yaks and horses .
- Either in the lamas jurt, a stone throw apart of the Gandan
- Tegchoeling Monastery at Ulan Baatar; Mongolias capital,
- or at Djenghi Khans Karakorum site, now Erdene Zu
- Monastery.
- Wolf Kahlen, actually on the footsteps of a Tibetan Mahasiddha
- called Thang-stong rgyal-po, a 'Leonardo of Tibet (and
- Mongolia?)', portraits the daily and nightly life, the
- obligations of the lama on the nomad trip,
- giving blessings, hope or oracles.
- The film depicts in extraordinary slow moves of the camera the
- 'arriving' in a country of a different time sensation. And a
- circular time perception of the Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy.
- Thanks to
- Lama Zagdag, Lamia Sanjdorj; Gandan Tegchoeling Monastery,
- the abbots and monks of the monasteries
- at Erdene Zu, Bereven, Zumod and others,
- Jhado Rinpoche and Thubten Tashi,
- Bakula Rinpoche and Sonam Wangchuk,
- Majciech Goralski and many others
