Home to Tibet

There are several strengths to the video HOME TO TIBET. For anyone like myself who is looking for an authentic account of the "real time" beliefs and practices of a Tibetan Buddhist, this is it. Too often some idealized form of "Tibetan Buddhism" is presented to the viewer that may or may not represent the average believer. In this video I found authentic, believable footage about contemporary Tibetan Buddhists. My discipline is History of Religions and we work quite hard here to give an unbiased and descriptive account of the religions of others. That is why HOME TO TIBET is so refreshing. It doesn't try to 'sell' some normative view, it just tells a wonderful human story and lets us come along and enter into the life experiences of people who are struggling with many difficulties: family, political, cultural and religious.

This video tells a wonderful story, one that is both heartbreaking and triumphant. I highly recommend it.

The real story of what happened since the Chinese occupied Tibet has rarely been told so well as in HOME TO TIBET . . . I recommend it to any one who cares about the Tibetan people, about justice and human rights, and about the human heart.