The Magical Journey

An extraordinary life-story of a Tibetan monk and his spiritual path of Yungdrung Bön:



Nagru Gelek Jinpa made a life-changing decision at the age of

nineteen to leave behind his life as a shepherd in eastern Tibet and

to become a monk. Five years later, after having met a great Bönpo

master, Yongdzin Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche, Gelek escaped from his

homeland to receive teachings on Bön philosophy and its highest

system of meditation, dzogchen, from this great master in

Kathmandu, Nepal.



He tells, with deep insight and humour, of his early years as an

uneducated boy herding cows, pigs and yaks; of his studies in

various monasteries in Tibet and India and finally in Nepal with his

beloved master Yongdzin Rinpoche. He also makes a pilgrimage to

Tibet in search of the ancient kingdom of Zhang Zhung and explores

age-old holy sites in Nepal. Later on he starts to teach in the West,

write books on his adventurous journeys and study filmmaking in Mexico.



This thought-provoking and remarkable story of a Tibetan monk and

scholar, teacher, author and documentary filmmaker, gives witness to

his extraordinary life and spiritual path linked to Tibet's original cultural and spiritual tradition.