Vajra Sky Over Tibet

Filmmaker John Bush bears witness to the relentless erosion of Tibet's religious and cultural traditions in this visually stunning documentary, which will play best to viewers already familiar with the tenets and customs of Tibet's vajrayana Buddhist tradition. Bush blames China, which invaded Tibet in 1949 and has governed it with a notoriously heavy hand ever since; the Communist mandate to root out organized religion, which led to the death or exile of more than 150,000 Tibetans (including the 14th Dalai Lama, who took up residence in India), was particularly damaging to a culture in which Buddhist belief was integral to every aspect of existence. In Tibet, the pu...