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movie features an unusual story-within-a-story plot about a young man on a journey from
his village to Bhutan’s capital in the company of a monk. While traveling, the monk recounts a
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story with an obstacle that is very Nepalese: the Himalayan Mountains. Should the villagers
wait to start their all-important caravan until the auspicious day, as is their tradition? Or
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Geographic photographer.
7T__WP -`OOSL (1994) Shot in the U.S., Nepal, and Bhutan by the director of the Last Emperor,
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learned Buddhist monk.
7TaTYR 2ZOOP^^ (2007). A well-received documentary about the lives of three Kumaris (girls
believed to be living goddesses by the Nepalese).
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