When I started this film I had quite a lot of skepticism about the tulku reincarnation system. I did not see how all that is claimed was possible. And I still cannot claim to understand it. But in looking at the footage in my room afterwards, I thought to myself, "OK, we have a film here."

If we're going to invoke the principle in public discourse, let's get it right, before some yahoo claims it's Iran's karma to get bombed.

Mahatma Gandhi, who employed nonviolent civil disobedience to lead India to independence after more than a century of British rule, was posthumously b...

Filmmaking in America is about as hard as it gets. My film "My Reincarnation" is a good example of that. I filmed for 12 years before a drop of support ever came in.

Buddhism has no single dogmatic view of karma. Unlike Western religious traditions, Buddhism is extremely fluid in its teaching, and assumes that people will gradually move towards more sophisticated understanding of the truth.

I imagined a father-son film where the son would wake up and recognize his reincarnation, return to Tibet and be enthroned in the monastery waiting for him. But when I told Yeshi of my filmmaking dream, he said I should forget it.

Part spiritual biography, part nail-biting undercover reporting, this book is the result of a quest to uncover long-hidden spiritual truths and real-time violations of religious freedom in Tibet.

Here is a video from a seminar in London, in which I answer a participant's question about reincarnation.

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