His Holiness shows Gene the only text he had with him when he fled Tibet. Children on their way to school at the Sherab Ling Monastery, Himachal Pradesh, India Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche gives thanks to Gene and the new Mac computer over his head that holds 12,000 texts Samdup at the Bon Monastery - Monk, scholar, film director Four Bon monks praying from texts at the Menri Monastery at Dolanji. PreviousPauseNext

When ancient writings of Sanskrit and Tibetan texts vanish during the political turmoil of the 1950s and 1960s, the history of a whole society-–its beliefs, customs and sense of enlightenment-–is in danger of disappearing. Enter destiny in the form of American pacifist E. Gene Smith, a Mormon from Utah, the unlikely leader of an effort to rescue, preserve and share these early insights of mankind’s consciousness, from the medical to the mystical.

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