Product Details

• Actors: The Dalai Lama, Rick Ray
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: MONTEREY VIDEO
• DVD Release Date: October 23, 2007
• Run Time: 85 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000U788UM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #46,865 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "10 Questions for the Dalai Lama" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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10 QUESTIONS FOR THE DALAI LAMA - DVD Movie

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sitting on Top of the World, October 20, 2007

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Junglies (Morrisville, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama (DVD)

This is a very gentle documentary film of the most famous monk in the world, his humble origins and his joint role as spiritual and political leader of Tibetans.

It's combination of background and insertion of clips to illustrate points during the actual interview with his holiness enhances what would be to most people a relatively staid movie. What results is an interesting story of a man who insists that he is but a man despite everything which his many follwers wish upon him. He is his own person, someone who wishes his own privacy despite the pressure upon him to be a purely public figure.

The documentary also deals with real political difficulties, addressing the issue of China and accusing the Chinese government in all but name of the kidnap of the Panchen Lama, yet managing to maintain some degree of impartiality so that it avoids the charge of being mere propaganda.

We learn much too, of the filmmaker and his observations, especially where he notes that it is those with least who display outward signs of happiness while those who have the most are the least happy.

Overall this is well worth watching especially to gain some insight into the mind of one of the most influential men of the 20th Century. After having watched this film today, I was reminded of the famous remark of Stalin who is reported to have asked: "How many legions has the Pope?".
Perhaps China's current rulers would be advised to ask the same question about the Dalai Lama.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A TEN for this 10!, October 20, 2007

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Dee J. - See all my reviews

This review is from: 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama (DVD)

I was lucky enough to get to see '10 Questions' at a movie screening earlier this year. In hindsight, I had wondered if it might be a bit boring, but was I wrong! It was absolutely fascinating from beginning until end. Tha Dalai Lama is one incredible man and Rick Ray did an really nice job of capturing some beautiful images and putting together this film. I highly recommend '10 Questions' for anyone from age 5 on up. I hope that the DVD will have some good bonus features, too.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Answers and More, January 6, 2008

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Ms. Silver - See all my reviews

This review is from: 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama (DVD)

I do not as a rule buy DVD's. I rent them. I was shattering my behavior pattern when I bought 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama. Perhaps I might want to view this one more than once or share it.

It is not the answers to the 10 questions that makes this DVD a "keeper". Rather, it is Rick Ray's lively, sometimes colorful, sometimes starkly black-and-white, introduction to the history of the Dalai Lamas, the culture of Tibetan Buddhism and the politics and geography of Tibet, that holds the viewer's attention long before we are introduced to the current Dalai Lama.

The questions that remain for the viewer at the end of the film are as intriguing as the answers we hear. How does one balance nationalism and belief in one's wisdom tradition against love of all humanity and openness to new knowledge? The Dalai Lama provides his view but tempers that with his offering of himself as a limited human, rather than an all-knowing deity.

This viewer found the current Dalai Lama to be a quite lovable human. Others are invited to meet with him for a while in Rick Ray's film.