Becoming a woman in Zanskar, Full documentary

[gini]

Living in the heart of the Himalaya, Tenzin and Palkit have a strong friendship. But that relationship will be shattered by destiny. They both have to leave their village and family forever. Tenzin has to marry the man chosen by her parents, and Palkit wants to avoid marriage and to become a nun.
Two adolescents in the Himalayas: one kidnapped by her future husband, the other head shaved as she enters the covent forever.

Documentary: “Becoming woman in Zanskar”
Direction: Jean Michel Corillion
Production: ZED & France Télévisions---82 minutes-----2021-

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9TTDFMa90Zs

---Very touching movie with beautyful footage of the mighty Himalaya's..

[Bill Ryan]

Many thanks, and I'll definitely watch this. (I've not been to Zanskar, but Ive been to neighboring Ladakh several times. It's a stunningly beautiful place, with stunningly beautiful people.)

I changed the thread title to Becoming a woman in Zanskar. The video title was a typo, or a mistranslation. The IMDB page is here.

https://imdb.com/title/tt9683282

[gini]

Another beautyful docu about the fascinating world of tibetan buddhism , this one about the young monks high up in the himalaya's.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=AAUMXVF7IEY

---Kenrap is eight years old. He is a Buddhist monk and lives in the Phukthal monastery on the peaks of the Himalayan mountains of Zanskar. Kenrap chose his life away from his family: when he was five, he remembered he was the reincarnation of a 68 year-old monk, and then decided to return to the monastery where he belonged.

Filmed from the point of view of a subjective camera by a young ethnologist, Himalaya, a Path to the Sky follows this attaching little monk with whom we share moments of intimacy, and gives us a rare glance at Buddhist monastic life.

Documentary: Himalaya, a path to the sky
Direction: Marianne Chaud, the director of “Himalaya, land of women”

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Production: ZED, ARTE France & TV5 Monde

[shaberon]

This is from a fairly unique region:


Zanskar, together with the neighboring region of Ladakh, was briefly a part of the kingdom of Guge in Western Tibet.

The Zanskar River is the first major tributary of the Indus River, equal or greater in volume than the main river, which flows entirely within Ladakh.

The Zanskar Range is a mountain range in the union territory of Ladakh that separates the Zanskar valley from Indus valley at Leh. Geologically, the Zanskar Range is part of the Tethys Himalaya.



Guge was humongous in Sarma or Second Transmission of Buddhism into Tibet, which makes it historically pivotal. Zanskar is inhabited by Mon or Tibetan people, but is not part of the country of Tibet. Because it is in India, it was unaffected by the Chinese.

Neighboring Alchi Rumtek is the oldest continuously-functioning Buddhist site (1100s).

Temporarily Guge had its own art style which is exemplary. Here is a 1400s Usnisa Vijaya:

[TargeT]

Posted by gini (here)
Two adolescents in the Himalayas: one kidnapped by her future husband, the other head shaved as she enters the covent forever.

I have learned a few things in my time of consciousness.

A one sided story is just that, a story.... NOT the truth.

Humans understand what works, we always do (that is why we are so successful). In times of abundance some people see potentiality for advancement via charity, in fact it's almost directly proportional. We are not designed to live in high density populations, some people take advantage of that.



At the end of the day, the vast majority of people in these situations are either suffering from mental situations due to trauma, or due to lack of support or due to PTSD; but in some cases they are just "grifters" and unfortunately it's more often than you think.

I've done a lot of volunteer work and worked with young males from the projects in the Caribbean for 8 years... It's shocking how often certain life styles are literally "by choice".


I've also learned the high disturbing truth that certain people LOVE being victims (it seems mostly for the low effort validation and attention), however; they completely ignore that they are diluting the valid issues that other people face (or die of) for their own selfishness.