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A Lifetime Poem| 1hr : 34mins
Director: Shiwei Kang | Producer: Shiwei Kang
Focus Years: 2015 | Country: China
Subject Tags: asia, belief, china, consciousness, culture, divine, tibet
Quality Tags: Optimistic, Slow, Activating, Harmonizing
Synopsis:
This documentary, full of metaphor, was filmed in one of the most mysterious places in the world — Sichuan Serthar Buddhist Institute of China. Due to government restrictions, this place was not accessible to foreigners. Sonam Darge, a Lama poet born exactly the day after Tsangyang Gyatso, lives here and as a romantic soul, he is fond of composing poems, even fantasizing being a reincarnation of Tsangyang Gyatso. Due to the government suppression, he learned that if he can't speak out about something, then write poems. With sorrow over the death of his cousin and great concern about Tibetan culture, he went to cities to learn about Han Chinese culture, calligraphy and visual design. However, he was not able to feel a sense of belonging to the Han society due to the press’s rejection to publish his anthology and cold reception from the Han people. As a result, he resorted to illegal publication, and gave up communicating with Han. In this way, he found his inner peace. Soon after then, his beloved oldest little sister had the same disease which his cousin had, and during her treatment, Sonam Darge prayed for her. Miraculously, his sister fully recovered through the power of modern medicine and his spiritual strength; and he himself regained inspiration for poems from the separation and death of beloved ones.

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