Samsara (Original Tibetan with English Subtitles)
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Audio: Tibetan (Unknown); French (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)Format: Color, Import, Subtitled, Widescreen
Running Time: 138 unknown-units
Published: 2001
DVD Reviews of Samsara (Original Tibetan with English Subtitles)
DVD Review: Perspectives
Summary: 5 Stars
The director has such wonderfully weaved a beautiful story - and brings forth a novel perspective about "Samsara". Other reviews have spilled a lot of beans about the story so I wont harp on the story. I would only say that the movie is indeed very well made. Cinematography is spectacular. Acting and direction are good too. The story/screenplay is without doubt the best of the package.DVD Review: The best-most-beautiful critics one can find of Buddhism
Summary: 5 Stars
This is really the best critics of Buddhism made by the director Pan Nalin, from the very land where Buddhism was born.
From the very beginning of the film, Right action, one of the ways to the Highest Goal of Buddhism philosophy, is questioned naturally when an eagle kills a sheep with a stone. But the most important critics is that one that has to do with family, which is really incompatible with the lonely path of a buddhist meditator; for a most detailed description, see please, some of the excellent reviews above.
Yes, it's a real pity that this excellent film has not been released in USA.
DVD Review: Samsara: Great Movie !
Summary: 5 Stars
This Movie was Humorous... There is a lot of truth in this movie and is a must see...
S. Sherpa
DVD Review: Delicate, evocative exploration of desire
Summary: 5 Stars
The debut feature from Indian director Pan Nalin, Samsara is a lovely, understated meditation on desire as seen through the life of Tashi, a Buddhist monk who leaves his order to explore the world outside the monastery.
The story opens with a dirt-smeared, matted-haired monk being carried out of a cave at the end of a three-year mediation retreat and afterwards being rewarded the rank of kenpo. Despite his elevation of the rank of teacher, Tashi remains afflicted by dreams of the erotic, dreams that cause him to question his vows, vows that he has kept since entering the monastery as a child of five. He wonders how the rest of the world lives, how the Buddha himself once lived before giving up his princely life to search for enlightenment. Sometimes, Tashi reasons, we must own something in order to renounce it.
Driven by an encounter with a beautiful village girl, he leaves the monastery to find her, figuratively and literally crossing a river, leaving his monk's robes on the bank and entering completely and wholly the world of samsara, our ordinary, work-a-day world known to the Buddhists as the realm of illusion, desire, hatred, and suffering.
There Tashi finds Pema, the village girl of his dreams, and a life of happiness and fulfillment as a husband, father, and farmer. In this life he encounters also much suffering in jealousy, deceit, anger, rage, physical violence, and most deeply in his own sexual desire, which leads to betrayal, infidelity and loss of self-esteem.
Unlike in many films in which these subjects would be weighted down with cloying dialog, director Nalin Pan cuts talk to a minimum, communicating with the viewer through the actors' expressions, the movement of camera, and through Cyril Mornin's music (as performed by Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra). With a handsome cast and the stunning vistas of the Himalayan foothills of Ladakh, India to fill out the camera, Samsara is a beautiful film for the eye and ear.
It also offers something for the mind, including an ambiguous ending that will leave you wondering which road Tashi chooses. Just as he is to head over the bridge leading to his monastery, where he has decided to return after his infidelity, he comes across his wife Pema, who ends the film with a series of penetrating questions on the relationship between the sexes and the role of women in Buddhism.
The question of Tashi's final direction is in the end put to the viewer - what are your desires? Where do they lead you? How can you make a meaningful life?
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DVD Review: Modern problems in an ancient country
Summary: 5 Stars
Himalaya is a perfect set for every movie. The landscapes, the colours, probably due to the rarefied atmosphere, the costumes and the intriguing faces of these people are worth alone a whole film. Samsara is a European-Asian co-production that has come out in 2005, with a good success especially in Europe. It is the story of a monk, Lashi, that after recovering from a state of meditation that lasted three years, three months and three days, finds himself attracted/distracted by human (sexual) stimuli. He first attempts to put his instincts in a religious perspective, meditating on the similarity between sex and death, but then gives up and goes back or better goes into the world, since he had entered the monastery at five years of age. In the village closest to his monastery he is attracted to a beautiful young girl, Pema, that reciprocates his passion. Pema and Lashi get married and have a child and Lashi works with his father in law and fights against a tyrannical and dishonest grain intermediary, contesting long lasting traditions and habits of the village. He shows his bravery by going to town to sell on his own the wheat, defends his land from a fire, and also gets beaten up by the intermediaries guards. Life goes on and Lashi finds himself attracted by a beutiful and saucy Indian girl and has an intercourse with her. This experience deeply disturbs him and makes him reflect on the sense of desire. He is again attracted by monastic life and prepares himself to give up his family life. He identifies himself with Siddharta and finds no guilt in leaving his wife and son. But at this point the story comes to its climax, because the gentle, patient, witty, intelligent Pema rebels and shows all her rage at being abandoned.
The films message is in its way revolutionary, the traditional buddhist way of life is questioned and contested. A woman discusses the belief that personal salvation and personal well being are the ultimate goal of the existence. Pema doesn't say it the way an occidental woman would but she clearly states that a family is a responsibility and there is a price to pay for sexual satisfaction, a family life and children.
I found this movie very interesting because in a rural society, with ancient ways and in the complete respect of tradition a woman makes herself heard. This is not a feminist work, far from it, but it is modern and true and very up to date because in many circumstances it is evident that personal satisfaction seems to be the only driving force in many kinds of society. Also the return towards religiosity that we are assisting to must not be at the price of family and child neglect.
The contrast between the ways of life and the moral of the story is striking and genial.
The picture is a little slow going in the first part, but the simple observation of the the costumes and colors is of the greatest satisfaction. The story differently from "Himalaya" is not out of time, because we see the town, the cars, the multiethnic society (the Indian girl, the Chinese intermediary)and this helps to contextualize. The country we see is Laddak which is probably the closest remaining to a pre-Chinese Himalayan society.
Backround music, especially the woman chants, are fantastic and give an added value to the picture.
The actors are perfect and the inexpressive face of Lashi really explains us his character. Pema is beautiful and very convincing from her first moments of passion to the battling conclusion.
I highly recommend this movie to all "himalayanophilies" like me but also to anyone interested in a beautiful and deep reflection on "self" and family.
Description of Samsara (Original Tibetan with English Subtitles)
A spiritual love-story set in the majestic landscape of Ladakh, Himalayas. Samsara is a quest; one man's struggle to find spiritual Enlightenment by renouncing the world. And one woman's struggle to keep her enlightened love and life in the world. But their destiny turns, twists and comes to a surprise ending...Spirituality DVDs
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