“The first day after my birth,” says the Dalai Lama, “immediately I learned, I experienced mother’s sort of compassion. That is I think the most important part of building a healthy family and that means healthy humanity.”
Note, this story is from our archive. It was originally published on April 28, 2009, and some of the information may be out of date.
The first film in Frame of Mind Film’s three part series Women of Tibet is Gyalyum Chemo: The Great Mother, which is both an exploration of the mother archetype and the fascinating life story of Dekyi Tsering, the mother of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. Here is the trailer:
The second film in the series is A Quiet Revolution, which tells the moving, true story of how in 1959 thousands of unarmed Tibetan women took to the streets of Lhasa to oppose the violent Communist Chinese occupation of their country. For the first time on film, three generations of Tibetan women and His Holiness the Dalai Lama recount this remarkable story. Here is the trailer:
The third film in the series, The Sacred Marriage, is still in the making.
