When ancient writings of Sanskrit and Tibetan texts vanish during the political turmoil of the 1950s and 1960s, following the Chinese invasion of Tibet, the history of a whole society – its beliefs, customs and sense of enlightenment – is in danger of disappearing. Enter American pacifist E. Gene Smith, a Mormon from Utah, the unlikely leader of an effort to rescue, preserve and share these early insights into mankind’s consciousness, from the medical to the mystical. Crossing multiple borders – geographic, political and philosophical – DIGITAL DHARMA is an epic documentary of a cultural rescue and how one man’s mission became the catalyst for an international movement to provide free access to the story of a people.

"Yachin's prime achievement lies in making several knotty concepts not just palatable but engrossing, including the thorny history of Tibet under Chinese subjugation"
-- John Anderson, Variety

Source: Off the Fence

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