9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Opening with Tibetan music] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [ The hard sound of wore-shippers[br]scrapping along the hard road ] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [ Interpreter ] - Where are you from? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 - from the Riko monastery 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [ Int.] -How long have you been doing this? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 - For one year. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [ Int. ] - Where are you going?[br]- To Lasha 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [ Int.] -But it is at least 300 miles to Lasha.[br]How long it will take you?[br] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [ Int] - About 3 months. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [ Int.] - How many [br]prostration you do a day? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [ Int. ] - About 3000 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [ Int. ] - A day? [br]- Less than 4 miles. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [ Female Narrator ] -Prostrations [br]are spiritual exercises. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It cleanses people of egotism, [br]greed, aggression and ignorance. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [ Local voices of prayers ] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [ Male Narrator ] -Tibetans make a [br]pilgrimage to Lhasa just once in their lives[br][br] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 There they pray for their spiritual[br]leaders; who fled the Country in 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 1959 in the face of Chinese[br]treats to destroy them. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They honour and venerate Karnapa.[br]Gyalwang Karmapa. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The head of a long established [br]Kagyu line in Tibete.[br] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Older than the Sect of the Dalai Lama. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Kamapa marched with more than[br]100 monks over the Himalayas into exile. [br] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Untse? Karmapa's tutor, quickly[br]formed a new monastic community. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And the ancient traditional teachings[br]of Tibetan Buddhism continued to florish. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [ Many voices ] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [ Fem. Narrator ]This place is called [br]Rumtek, a monestary Sikkim which 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 was then a little Buddhist kingdom, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 North of India, on the southern [br]slopes of the Himalayas. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The Rumtek monastery became the[br]new headquarters of Karmapa in exile. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [ Male Narrator ] - Karmapa [br]is the holder of the black crown; a 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 symbol of his mastership. he is the living [br]link of an undropping chain of enlighted 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 beings back to the historical Buddha[br]Shakyamouni who lived in India[br] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 in 700 BC. He is Buddha. Buddah[br]Shakyamouni, transmits his experiences 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 to his people, who also became enlighted[br]and are able to help thei pupils or 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 so to reach the stage of self liberation. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 In the 12th century, this chain [br]of enlighten beings, led to 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 the 1st Karmapa. Who then developed[br]the unique ability to predict exactly and 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 in writing his own reincarnation. [br]As did the 2nd Karmapa and 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 the 3rd and so fourth up to him 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 the present the 16th of reincarnation. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 of Karmapa. He died 1n 1991 at[br]the age of 57. His body was 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 cremated at Rumetk monestary.[br]It was a State funeral. nd mourners 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 gather from all corners of the earth. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Karmapa has millions of followers. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 He left behind 4 number of [br]representatives or interim regents. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Sharma on the right, Tai Sitou[br]on the left, Jamgon and Gyaltsab, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 the youngest of the interim regents. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Rainbows over the blue sky of Sikkim.[br]In Tibete a sure sign of an enlighten 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 being has left its body. In Buddhism [br]death is not the end. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Karmapa died with the promise that[br]he would give a clear sign by which 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 he could be recognised in his new life. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 But for a long time no more clues were found. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Until eleven years later. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [ Dalai Lama ] - I've got something new.[br]I've dreamed of the location, the area 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 where the person is born... One valley is next... 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 to the stones and lawns...actually it looks[br]high altitude...and then facing the South 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 there are some streams...small beautiful[br]streams... and then there is a main... 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 the picture. There is someone there...and it 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 told me... actually without its form....[br]that someone...some source, you see, telling[br][br] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 to me : ''This is the place! [br]Where Karmapa was born. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [ Fem. Narrator ] where could this place be? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 How could it be found? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [ Tromp Music + ] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [ Male narrator ] - Here in northern India,[br]is where Taï Sitou, one of Karmapas[br] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 of 4 interim regents made [br]an interesting disovery. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [ Sound of a box being open ] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [ Male narrator] - pressured by the faithful[br]that hope and expected Karmapa has 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 left some clues behind, Sitou felt [br]that he should open the talisman 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Karmapa had given him 10 months, [br] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 before his death with the words: ''this[br]will protect you and some day it will be useful. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 His Sanctity has given me this protection.[br]...pouch.... In early January 1981. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And one day it was sneaking here...[br]I opened that and found an envelope. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And the envelope had red ink letter[br]saying that this should be opened 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 in the iron horse year. And then I[br]was very very happy. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 And then after the , after I offer the [br]letter to Rumtek...it would be taken 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 in March 1982. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [ Male narrator ] - Traditionally such talisman[br]are never opened; but since no one had 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 found any indication of Karmapa's[br]rebirth, he decided to open it, afterall. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [ someone ]- But the letter is still...[br][ Taï Sitou ]- The letter is in Rumtek, yes. the 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 envelope and the letter, both. [br]It's in alter. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [ Male narrator ] - here in the Rumtek [br]monastery, in the late heathquarters of 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 the late Karmapa, this most important[br]and holy document is protected by 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 the secret police; those from outside and inside. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Absolutely no one has access to it.