Little Buddha (1994)

Directors

Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast

Keanu Reeves, Bridget Fonda, Chris Isaak, Alex Wiesendanger, Ying Ruocheng, Sogyal, Raju Lal

The story

Tibetan Buddhist monks from a monastery in Bhutan (Rinpung Dzong), led by Lama Norbu, are searching for a child who is the rebirth of a great Buddhist teacher, Lama Dorje. Lama Norbu and his fellow monks believe they have found a candidate for the child in whom Lama Dorje is reborn: an American boy named Jesse Conrad, the young son of an architect and a teacher who live in Seattle. The monks come to Seattle in order to meet the boy.

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