Planets indicate the 10th would be an auspicious date for the wedding.
So fix it for that day.
Please tell me,
whom the wedding is with?
With whom? I think it was all decided last night!
Jamayang came to see me
and requested me to come here
to fix the wedding date
of Pema and Tashi.
Why? Why did you do it?
Jamayang?
Even if the decision was in my favor,
you wouldn't have married me anyway!
Would you?
The woman will dominate!
Hey, stop, eat now! You'll cry later.
Something is wrong.
Who is he?
My husband!
What's going on?
After all the years we've worked together.
Tenzin, you allow him to doubt me?
Now you can cry, my son.
You better start building a new granary.
You're going to need a lot of storage space from now on!
Tashi, we're satisfied in what we get.
Besides, you have to sell it to him.
No one else comes to this valley!
Let me take the harvest to town! I'll sell it all.
We'll teach Dawa a lesson!
And what makes you think those city guys will buy from us?
What is that?
For a safe journey.
One ticket, five Rupees.
Two tickets, ten Rupees.
You see, even notes don't fit in your purse!
Wow, incredible! More than twice of what Dawa pays!
Guess what?
Now the bank-notes fit into my purse!
Your father's gone with Tashi.
I know.
Don't you understand!
Why change a traditional practice?
Dawa always bought everyone's crop for years!
It's dangerous to oppose him.
Jamayang. Go fetch my mother!
Quick!
Now who would this be?
It's me!
So it seems you've been to town?
We've been working.
I can see that.
Hiding your grain?
That's easy. Hiding from me, that's harder!
You better remember that.
Besides, what did I tell you?
He's ruining the whole valley!
Look at you!
Bastards.
It's Pema! The baby's coming!
No! Women only!
I see... A great soul has reborn here!
What a beautiful boy! A great spirit has surely returned.
Are you a Tulku, Karma?
So it's settled?
Sujata's next.
No!
Keep all the money!
Just keep passing it on to me!
Pema knows what to do.
She always pays me the day we leave.
And how long has that been?
I am nineteen...
Figure out the rest!
Your money!
I wish you a safe return.
See you next year!
Karma, that's very good.
This wood is so heavy...
Oh, you're still carrying it!
What's inside, Apa?
- Meat. - Where does it come from?
From a goat.
Did you have to kill the goat to take its meat?
Yes.
But mother says we shouldn't kill any creature,
not even an insect!
We didn't kill the goat. Someone did it for us.
Why didn't we kill the goat ourselves, Apa?
Stop talking and eat, Karma.
Stop! Wear something warm.
Let him go.
But it's freezing outside!
Let him find that out.
It is freezing!
So you see, I told you it's freezing outside.
Is everything all right?
It's just... the migrant workers.
Maybe we don't need so many.
I sometimes wonder if we need them at all.
They cost so much money!
I want you to tell me
what will happen to that stick.
It will drown!
Suppose it doesn't.
It will get stuck...
in the rocks!
Suppose it doesn't get stuck.
We don't really need all these workers.
What is it you suddenly have
against our poor workers?
It'll stay in the water and rot!
No.
It will get stuck in a whirlpool...
...or it can go down with a waterfall
and break.
Suppose even that doesn't happen.
What then?
Do you give up?
The answer's simple.
The stick will reach the sea!
We're all like this stick.
Our world is like a river.
Jamayang, congratulations!
I heard you are soon going to be married.
By the way...
we're taking our harvest
into town.
Don't you think it's time you joined us?
I only sell to Dawa, like my father and I always have.
Think a little,
you know Dawa cheats you.
After all these years...
you still don't know how things work here,
do you?
We're back! And look!
Apa!
What did you do when you were a boy?
He always made his own toys.
Go now!
Jamayang,
Please, you don't need him any more.
Hey stop!
I don't even know why I bother with this valley.
Jamayang, let him go. Listen...
And prepare yourselves to eat all what you grow!
Believe me!
You can sell it in the town with us.
That's the best way.
You chased him away!
Everything you touch, you ruin it!
Dawa!
Jamayang is hot-headed.
He'll calm down once he's married. Let him go...
and follow his own way.
Ama!
Karma, stay outside please.
Karma, you can come in now.
What's the matter with him?
I told you we shouldn't make love in front of him!
Apa says we save over half the crop.
Everyone came to help us.
The whole valley.
It's you, isn't it?
Why would I do a thing like that? You're insane.
It wasn't me.
Then who? Who?
Take a guess!
You fool,
why don't you try asking you neighbors?
You think I burnt your field?
No one does suuch things here.
Grow up!
And you guys, thank you for joining us.
Now why don't you stay for dinner too!
Are you sure you're old enough to do business in town?
I'm a man now!
For a safe journey.
- Is Pema in? - No.
We leave...
Can I have my money?
Okay.
How old are you?
You ask me that every year!
Be careful, it is fragile.
- I hear something! - Don't move!
Hurry! Pema's coming!
My sari, you tore it!
You must leave now.
Hurry up! Leave.
What are you still doing here? Peam's here.
Calm down.
Why are you so worried? She told me this would happen.
Look Apa, a pony just like yours! I made it myself.
That's good.
This is for you.
Very nice. Thanks.
Aren't you going to...
Later, I have some work.
...try it on?
Tashi!
Sonam!
It's about Apo?
When apo knew it was time,
he went to prepare himself in the sacred cave.
He asked that I accompany him.
We both meditated together until...
He asked that
I give you this.
I realized now that my task is not over,
and so I will be returning to Samsara.
I know that we shall meet again.
Perhaps when we do...
...you'll be able to tell me what is important:
satisfying one thousand desires or conquering just one.
Yours, Apo.
I've heard so much about
wild-weddings in your region!
And for your marriage, I should be there...
but you know I can't leave the farm.
It feels so strange knowing
I won't be coming back next year.
Look after yourself.
Yashodhara...
Do you know that name?
Prince Siddhartha, Gautama, Shakyamuni, Buddha...
Everybody knows these names
but "Yashodhara"?
Yashodhara was married to Siddhartha.
She loved him dearly.
One night, Siddhartha left her
and their son, Rahul,
to seek Enlightenment and to become Buddha.
He did not even say a word when he left.
Yashodhara has shown compassion
for the sick and ailing
long before Siddhartha was even aware of suffering!
Who can say if he owed his Enlightenment to her?
Pema...
Perhaps Yashodhara wanted to leave Siddhartha et Rahul.
How can we ever know
if Yashodhara fell victim to anger,
loneliness or bitterness
after Siddhartha left her?
Who even thought about her?
What must she have said when Rahul, her son
asked the eternal question:
"Where is my father?"
What must she have told him?
How could a mother leave her own child,
in the middle of the night?
It is only possible for a man to do.
Tashi... Only for a man.
Yashodhara had no choice
but to lead a life of renunciation.
She cut off her hair
and lived like an ascetic.
Oh Tashi...
If your thoughts towards Dharma were of the same intensity
as the love and passion you have shown me,
you would have become a Buddha in this very body,
in this very life.
Pema,
forgive me.
I am going back with you.
Back where I belong.
"How can one prevent a drop of water from ever drying up?"
By throwing it into the sea.