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Title:

The trials of Telo Rinpoche [videorecording] / a White Crane Films production for BBC ; produced and directed by Ritu Sarin, Tenzing Sonam.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

University of California Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning,

Copyright Date:

1999?

Description:

1 videocassette (ca. 50 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.

Subject:

Telo Rinpoche.
Rinpoches--Kalmykii͡a.--Kalmykii͡a.
Buddhism--Kalmykii͡a.--Kalmykii͡a.
Documentary television programs.
Kalmykii͡a (Russia)--Religion.

Other Authors:

Sarin, Ritu, 1960-
Tenzing Sonam.
White Crane Films.
University of California (System). Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning.

Other Titles:

Everyman (Television program)

Notes:

Documentary. Originally produced as part of the BBC's Everyman television program in 1994.

Summary:

Explores the revival of Tibetan Buddhism in the Russian republic of Kalmykia through the efforts of the young Philadelphia native and son of Kalmykian emigrants, who's become a monk through study in India and finds his position as co-chair of the republic's religious affairs department a daunting assignment. He's shown working with government officials and visiting the Dalai Lama in India, his family in Philadelphia, and locations where he plans to build new Buddhist learning institutions in Kalmykia.

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)