‘Never Forget Tibet: The Dalai Lama’s Untold Story’ Releases On His Birthday

Dharamsala: As a mark of reverence on the 89th birthday of the 14th Dalai Lama, an icon of ahimsa (non-violence) and karuna (compassion), on Saturday, ‘Never Ignore Tibet: The Dalai Lama’s Untold Story’ was once launched worldwide. The documentary, directed by Jean-Paul Mertinez, explores info of the Nobel Peace Laureate’s best get away into exile for the major time on film in his personal words, with the Indian political officer who led him to security — late Havildar Mander Singh.

Proposing the Tibetan regional in exile and these with historic ties to Tibet, the film explores the Dalai Lama’s compassion for a world seemingly in crisis in in this day and age and seeks to in trying out what will likely be learnt from his inspirational existence story, Tibetan tradition and its historical spirituality. Impressed by the booklet ‘An Officer and His Holiness’ by Rani Singh, the film is narrated by British acting legend Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey, Paddington) and capabilities tune from Grammy-nominated artist Anoushka Shankar.

The film is produced by Compassionate Motion pix and the Govt Producers are Templeheart Motion pix, Lyndon Baldock, Gavin Patterson and Rani Singh. The worldwide digital launch has been made imaginable with the collaboration of The Italian Buddhist Union, Rome, Italy.

The attribute-dimension documentary will likely be purchasable on world’s finest streaming platforms, which involves Apple TV+, Amazon and Google Play. In 1959, the occupying Chinese troops suppressed the Tibetan national uprising in Lhasa and compelled the 14th Dalai Lama and over 80,000 Tibetans into exile in India and neighbouring countries.

On reaching India after a three-week-long and treacherous ride, the Dalai Lama first took up residence for roughly a 12 months in Mussoorie in Uttarakhand. On March 10, 1960, just previously transferring to Dharamsala, which also serves simply because the headquarters of the exiled Tibetan establishment, the Dalai Lama identified: “For these of us in exile, I identified that our priority should be resettlement and the continuity of our cultural traditions. We, Tibetans, would as a results of the succeed in regaining freedom for Tibet.”

Presently, the authorities-in-exile is predicated in Dharamsala, a town in Himalayan foothills where a regional of Tibetans lives in exile with the Dalai Lama, hoping to set up their war to unhazardous complete autonomy of their Chinese-ruled fatherland, Tibet.