Tenzin Tsundue presented a frilm "Angry Monk"

Tenzin Tsundue, Tibetan poet and activist presented a film "Angry Monk" by Luc Schaedler (Documentary; 90min) in Bangalore on Monday. Friends of Tibet arranged this programme. The film documented the life of one of the most controversial monks from Tibet. It was screened at the Alternative Law Forum in Bangalore.

Tibet - the mystical roof of the world, peopled with enlightened
monks? Only one of them would not toe the line - Gendun Choephel, the errant monk who left the monastic life in 1934 in search of a new challenge. A free spirit and multifaceted individual, he was far ahead of his time and has since become a seminal figure, a symbol of hope for a free Tibet.

A rebel and voluble critic of the establishment, Gendun Choephel kindled the anger of the Tibetan authorities. The cinematic journey through time portrays the life of this unorthodox monk, revealing a face of old Tibet that goes against popular clich.

The film offers a fascinating insight into a country whose eventful past is refracted in the multiplicity and contradictions of everyday life. An outsider who was always open to new things, he eventually became a stranger in his homeland and homeless in foreign lands - a wanderer between worlds.

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