Return to Gandhi Road

SYNOPSIS

Kangyur Rinpoche’s extraordinary story of bringing Buddhism to the West. Return to Gandhi Road tells the powerful story of Kangyur Rinpoche; a renowned Tibetan Master who, heeding the imminent danger of the 1950’s Cultural Revolution, and under the instructions of the Dalai Lama, braved the dangerous journey over the Himalayan mountains to  India, rescuing two tons of Buddhist texts that otherwise faced potential extinction. Told through the eyes of the first few Westerners to have met him in Darjeeling India in the late 60s and early 70s, and narrated by one of those Westerners, New Zealander Kim Hegan, as he  journeys back to India 40 years after Rinpoche’s passing.

STARRING

Kim Hegan, Mathieu Ricard, Anne Benson, Christian Bruyat

DIRECTED BY

Yeshe Hegan

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN

New Zealand

LANGUAGE

English

GENRE

Documentary