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After his mother dies, Jiantan has to leave Xi'an to live with his father on the Tibetan steppe, where he meets a golden dog that helps him cope with the new challenges ahead.

Six years ago, archaeological researcher Lin Guo Hua disappeared mysteriously in Tibet after proving the existence of King Gesar. Daughter Lin Xi inherits her father's business when she grows up, and with the help of Uncle Da, she continues to uncover the bewildering mystery of King Gesar. Ma Qiang, who ran into a retired special forces soldier outside the plateau airport, becomes their driver-guide, and the three start a thrilling adventure together. At the moment of life and death, the Tibetan girl Zhuo Ma appears to help, and the four form a team of Tibetan soldiers to continue to explore the truth.

After surviving a perilous journey in Guluo, brothers Zhang Haike and Zhang Nian are thrust into a new adventure when Zhang Nian is kidnapped by the elusive Han Shuang. To secure his brother’s release, Zhang Haike must guide Han Shuang back to Guluo to uncover the legendary artifact known as the "Gong Ka," leading them into an intense and dangerous expedition through the snowy wilderness.

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In 1963, for the first time, the Dalai Lama allowed a Westerner, Desjardins, to film the heart of the Tibetan tradition. These two films were originally shown on French television in the 1960's and are a wonderful testimony, revealing some of Tibet's foremost masters as they were then. It includes footage of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, the Sixteenth Karmapa, Dudjom Rinpoche, Ling Rinpoche, Chatral Rinpoche, Sakya Trizin, and the yogis Apo Rinpoche and Lopon Sonam Zangpo. "These portraits of the legendary Tibetan masters are not simply a unique historical record, not only a stunning and moving inspiration for now and for the future, but an extraordinary testimony, a treasure." Sogyal Rinpoche.

Set against the backdrop of the reconstruction of the Baima villages in Pingwu, the film follows the daily lives of four sisters and their family in the Baima Eri Village. Interwoven with memories from two decades ago, it traces their journey of resilience and renewal amid the sweeping changes of the times. Through their personal stories, the film also reveals the living heritage of the Baima Tibetan culture — its legends, songs, dances, language, and the traditional ritual of Cao Gai — offering a poetic reflection on identity, endurance, and the passage of time.

The film focuses on the touching deeds of aiding Tibet and teaching in Tibet, and tells the story of Han Song (played by Fan Jiaqi), a college student from Beijing, who responded to the country's call to go to Tibet to support teaching.

"Earth Summit Mission" is the first 4K documentary recording a scientific expedition. The 60-minute Earth Summit Mission documentary is a record of the second Chinese scientific expedition to Mount Qomolangma which took place in the summer of 2022. It involved around 200 scientists, led by Yao Tandong from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In the course of the expedition, the scientists set a number of records, from collecting ice and snow samples from the highest point on Earth and setting up the world’s highest weather station, to sending up an observation aerostat to an altitude of over 9,000 meters.

A personal audio-visual notebook from Tibet (1988-95). The everyday things, the breathtaking light, the enjoyment of the common, the second look, the love for the detail, memories.

Our film portray the purity and religious piety of Drolma, along with her happiness and sadness, are presented to reveal the conflicting nature of Tibetans' beliefs and traditions in the face of modern urban civilization.

The first in Wang Haibing’s ‘Three Families’ trilogy (which also includes 1993’s Deep Mountain Boatman and 2000’s Days in the Mountains) -- all of which won the Sichuan International TV Festival “Golden Panda” award in their years of premiere.

Screened in the New Asian Current section of the 1993 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival.

Short film made by Chinese documentary filmmaker Fu Hongxing for the Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio of the People’s Republic of China. Held as a print at the University of South Carolina. English-language narration.

Short film made by Chinese documentary filmmaker Fu Hongxing for the Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio of the People’s Republic of China. Held as a print at the University of South Carolina. English-language narration.

The journey back home has been a recurring narrative ever since humans started to tell stories. Because going back to one’s origins is always related to identity, a dilemma that never ceases to hit close to home

One step ahead of Chinese communists, a couple of friends hook up with an American adventurer who promises to lead them safely out of Tibet through the Himalayas.

Documentary surrounding the festival.

June 13, 1996 San Francisco, CA @Golden Gate Park - Tibetan Freedom Concert

This documentary tells the tragic story surrounding one of the world's most influential spiritual leaders, the Dalai Lama, and the lengths to which people will go in order to experience his power Tibetan Refugee film. After the Chinese government forced him out of his native Tibet, the Dalai Lama settled in Northern India. Featuring interviews with scholars and those who made the same trek over the mighty Himalayas, TIBETAN REFUGEE is a testament to the power of the human spirit.

A small Tibetan antelope pursues its dream to return home and become the king of Tibet Antelope.

Many twentieth century European artists, such as Paul Gauguin or Pablo Picasso, were influenced by art brought to Europe from African and Asian colonies. How to frame these Modernist works today when the idea of the primitive in art is problematic?

Most of us think of death as something clear-cut, and that medical science has it neatly figured out. This feature documentary explodes such assumptions through its exploration of a phenomenon that blurs life and death to an unprecedented degree. In what Tibetan Buddhists call tukdam, advanced meditators die in a consciously controlled manner. Though dead according to our biomedical standards, they often stay sitting upright in meditation; remarkably, their bodies remain fresh and lifelike, without signs of decay for days, sometimes weeks after clinical death. Following ground-breaking scientific research into tukdam and taking us into intimate death stories of Tibetan meditators, the film juxtaposes scientific and Tibetan perspectives as it tries to unravel the mystery of tukdam.

Experimental movie, where a man comes home and experiences LSD. His kaleidoscopic visions follow, with readings inspired by the Tibethan Book of the Dead.

As the crucial question arises of the future succession of the Dalai Lama, we take a look back at the tormented history of the "Land of Snows" which lives under Chinese domination and which remains a geopolitical issue of the first order. A valuable documentary that gives voice to a people that China is trying to permanently silence.

In Sardinia, in the near future, the ancient settlements come back to life, once again hosting man. The young Mila is robbed of her father's inheritance by her paternal uncles. After many adventures she manages to obtain revenge. Despite this, the girl still struggles to find serenity and therefore decides to undertake a spiritual journey in search of herself.

Devout Buddhists, Norbu and Dolma live with their young son Tashi in a clan in Tibet. Norbu is a highwayman. After Norbu is charged with stealing from the temple, he and his family are banished. Impoverished and marginalized, they can do little when their beloved son becomes ill. Tashi dies of a fever. After a second son is born, Norbu focuses his every action on keeping this child alive, seeking re-admission to the clan for his wife and child, then risking all to save them from isolation and starvation in winter.

Irish director Donagh Coleman explores the extraordinary phenomenon of Tukdam, whereby some Tibetan Buddhist practitioners are able to forestall physical decay at the point of clinical death for days, even weeks, by entering a deep meditative state. Supported by His Holiness the Dalai Lama a group of leading scientists conduct groundbreaking research into the phenomenon, which challenges Western medical understanding of the line between life and death.

While the World Cup is being played in France, two young Tibetan refugees arrive at a monastery in India. The atmosphere of serene contemplation is soon disrupted by soccer fever, as the two students desperately seek a TV to watch the final.

Two-part documentary about the Tibetan refugee community in India. Feingold interviews Tibetan philosophers and former political prisoners. Part One (60 mins.) "Body, Speech, and Mind: Conversations with Tibetan Philosophers". Part Two (30 mins.) "Resisting the Chinese Occupation: Personal Accounts of Tibetans".

A Tibetan immigrant returns to her home country to witness the Chinese occupation.

A beautiful documentary film set around Dzogchen monastery in Tibet. It focuses on Kjabje Dzogchen Pema Kalsang Rinpoche, who has been instrumental in the rebuilding and re-establishing of the great monastic seat of Dzogchen monastery in Tibet. In 1998 Rinpoche began the construction of the Lotus Ground Retreat Centre in the secluded meadow of Dzogchen Pema Tung. Having completed the stunning Temple of Great Perfection in 2003, he established the Pema Tung annual teachings and empowerments of the secret heart essence of Dzogpa Chenpo for great numbers of fortunate students. High on the Tibetan plateau, in the hidden valley of Rudam, Kham (Eastern Tibet), is the Buddhist monastery of Tibet. It is home o one of the world's most profound and secret spiritual traditions.

Thinley and Nyima are Tibetans in exile in India. Barely able to make a living, they are now expecting a child. Is there still hope despite all these challenges?

A documentary film about Tibetan traditional medicine.

More than 50 years ago, the Tibetan Bon Buddhist tradition was driven from its refuge deep within the Himalayas. This is the story of the long and difficult journey that followed. Told through the lens of one Bon teacher born in exile -- Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche -- this film reveals something very precious and very old: a rich spiritual heritage, hidden for millennia, whose secret teachings are only now becoming known to the world. There may be no unbroken spiritual tradition more ancient than Bon, which traces its beginnings to a buddha who predates Shakyamuni by thousands of years. Yet this tradition today may be facing its greatest challenge thus far: to preserve its rich heritage beyond the land of its birth.

Tibetan writer Tsering Woeser's efforts to document and present the reality of Tibet were considered a "political problem" by the Chinese Party-state and she was fired from her job. Since then, she has persevered as an independent writer and has continued to speak out for the sufferings of Tibetan people. Zhu Rikun, the director, came into possession of Tsering's official dossier which then became the main thread of this film. The first half of the movie is centred around her reading of the dossier; be patient as the theme grows and her interviews document the changed direction her career took including footage from Tibet.

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Tibetan Buddhist search for the meaning of death in an unforgiving Himalayan landscape and stir compassion by uncovering human truths

The Legacy of Menla is a fresh portrayal of cancer, from the perspective of Tibetan Medicine.

This tells the love stories of Qingcuo, a devoted nursing school student who commits herself to healing the patients in Namtso after graduation.

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