An extraordinary life-story of a Tibetan monk and his spiritual path of Yungdrung Bön:<br/><br/>Nagru Gelek Jinpa made a life-changing decision at the age of<br/>nineteen to leave behind his life as a shepherd in eastern Tibet and <br/>to become a monk. Five years later, after having met a great Bönpo<br/>master, Yongdzin Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche, Gelek escaped from his<br/>homeland to receive teachings on Bön philosophy and its highest <br/>system of meditation, dzogchen, from this great master in<br/>Kathmandu, Nepal.<br/><br/>He tells, with deep insight and humour, of his early years as an<br/>uneducated boy herding cows, pigs and yaks; of his studies in <br/>various monasteries in Tibet and India and finally in Nepal with his <br/>beloved master Yongdzin Rinpoche. He also makes a pilgrimage to <br/>Tibet in search of the ancient kingdom of Zhang Zhung and explores<br/>age-old holy sites in Nepal. Later on he starts to teach in the West,<br/>write books on his adventurous journeys and study filmmaking in Mexico.<br/><br/>This thought-provoking and remarkable story of a Tibetan monk and<br/>scholar, teacher, author and documentary filmmaker, gives witness to<br/>his extraordinary life and spiritual path linked to Tibet's original cultural and spiritual tradition.