Gesar mukpo biography

Infinite and ephemeral, a raindrop in the ocean, today #sparkchamber goes deep with filmmaker, Gesar Mukpo. “My journey as a filmmaker began over 30 years ago, with a gifted 35mm still camera while visiting Nepal. Seeing the images I had captured earlier in the day come to life in print was a magical experience.” And, in a way, an allegorical fragment of an aspect of his life.

In his 2009 feature-length documentary film Tulku, Gesar details the experiences of five young Western men who were identified in childhood as being tulkus — reincarnated Tibetan Buddhist masters. This subject matter was, is personal to him as, at the age of three, he was enthroned as a tulku in Berkeley, California. The son of a British mother and a Tibetan father — eminent Tibetan Buddhist master Chögyam Trungpa — Gesar was identified as the reincarnation of one of his own father’s teachers. “You’re the reincarnation of your father’s teacher … now what?”

For over 700 years, tulkus have been sought out as highly revered leaders and teachers of Tibetan Buddhism. In the 1970s, tulkus began

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