Sonam!
Oh no, not again!
Ladakh, India.
Altitude: 4500m and more...
How long?
Three years, three months, three weeks and three days.
Tashi,
we are taking you back.
Tashi,
it is time.
Tashi, you pushed it too far.
"How can one prevent a drop of water from ever drying up?"
Apo is back...
Kala!
- Now, I must leave. - Safe return!
No! I want to go home!
Tashi...
did you cry when your father left you here?
Le head lama, His holiness Chen Tulku
will be performing a sacred initiation in five days.
He asks that you attend.
So prince Siddhartha left his palace
and luxurious life...
And from his golden chariot...
saw suffering for the first time!
Thus one night,
prince Siddhartha
decided to leave his beautiful wife,
Princesse Yashodhara,
and his son, Rahul, and go away.
He left his son?
Well, yes.
Because he wanted to find out the true cause of suffering and...
I want to go home!
Tashi, Rinpochey is here!
After twenty years studying in our monastery
Lama Tashi completed
three years of meditation,
Truly this is the path towards Nirvana.
His Holiness Dhyan Rinpochey
has therefore awarded Lama Tashi
the precious Khenpo degree in recognition of his achievement.
He's a very good monk!
Kala, you monkey!
Tashi... You spoke!
It was him!
Kala, do you hear me?
Long live Rinpochey!
For Tashi the precious degree of Khenpo...
but for Kala... nothing!
Jhulley! Tashi Delek!
Hail!
to the Four Noble Truths!
Who is he?
Tashi.
Hurry up!
Can you tell me what's going on?
Apo, bring Lama Tashi with you tomorrow for the harvest ceremony.
He needs some fresh air.
Tashi, next time you wish to modify a performance, please let me know in advance.
Welcome!
Jhuley.
Where is Tenzin Thorgay's house?
Right there.
Come, I'll take you there.
Tashi Delek, jhulley, welcome.
Apo?
My head...
Last night I have...
Yes, I know. Dreams are like that sometimes.
So is Tashi still dreaming?
You see, even you can be angry.
Here, the map. You leave at dawn.
It is time to choose.
Kala!
What's up with you today?!
When did you learn to read maps?
Jhulley, Tashi Delek!
Jhulley, I am Tashi.
The venerable Khenpo Apo sends me.
No speech?
Understood. Only body and mind.
Thank you.
Every experience helps to find the Way
Where is Apo?
Even He was allowed a worldly existence
until he was 29!
But since the age of five,
I've been living like Buddha after He renounced to the world.
How do we know
that His Enlightenment
was not a direct result of His worldly existence too?
Apo!
What about the promised freedom resulting from the strict monastic discipline?
And where is the promised satisfaction from our vow of celibacy?
"You should not accept my teachings on hearsay
"unless and until you understand it
"from your own point of view", he said once.
There are things we must unlearn...
in order to learn them.
And there are things
we must own in order to renounce them.
Your dream back in the village wasn't a dream.
But...
Kala! It's me!
Come see me tomorrow. We'll talk about it.
Dolma,
we have another mouth to feed.
A nomad. I told him he could work
until the harvest was done.
That way, I'll have less work.
And of course, it'll increase mine!
Sujata, here.
Oh mother,
I need some more.
Pema...
Go bring some food to that new hardworking guy.
And tell him he can even stop to eat it!
Enough, father!
Hey Mister!
Take a little rest,
make a little break for lunch.
Pema!
Pema, wait!
Don't tell me you you did this for me...
No, I did it for myself as well.
But why?
I am sorry if this is my fault.
Shhh... Pema please.
Maybe I was wrong to do that
but all I wanted to do was
to comfort you for a moment.
And look now!
Are you sure that it was all about a momentary comfort?
If it is so,
then I'll be gone
before the sun rises.
From now on you will go out wearing this! Roaming here and there!
I gave you a job and this is your way to thank me?
Oh, is it you!? Forgive me!
Why are you asking for forgiveness?
He used to be a Lama, but he is no more!
Mum...
Slowly...
Pema,
what are we going to do?
You family has already accepted my engagement with you.
I know. What do you want me to do?
I have nothing else but you.
An astrologer will come tomorrow, I'll let him determine my destiny.
Pema, but why an astrologer?