Arun Bhattarai, Author at Tricycle: The Buddhist Review The independent voice of Buddhism in the West. Fri, 27 Oct 2023 20:52:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 https://tricycle.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/site-icon-300x300.png Arun Bhattarai, Author at Tricycle: The Buddhist Review 32 32 Dreams of Birds Flying in the Sky https://tricycle.org/filmclub/dreams-of-birds-flying-in-the-sky/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dreams-of-birds-flying-in-the-sky https://tricycle.org/filmclub/dreams-of-birds-flying-in-the-sky/#comments Sat, 30 Sep 2023 04:00:12 +0000 https://tricycle.org/?post_type=filmclub&p=69076

Dreams of Birds Flying in the Sky explores the complex realities of persons living with disabilities in the Himalayan country of Bhutan. The experiences of those featured in the film show the impact that living with a disability has on education, work, culture, religion, and more. Despite the challenges they face, the participants in the film explore what it means to live a life of purpose and joy.

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Dreams of Birds Flying in the Sky explores the complex realities of persons living with disabilities in the Himalayan country of Bhutan. The experiences of those featured in the film show the impact that living with a disability has on education, work, culture, religion, and more. Despite the challenges they face, the participants in the film explore what it means to live a life of purpose and joy.

This film will be available to stream until 11:59 p.m. ET on Friday, October 27, 2023. 

 

A young man in rural southern Bhutan contemplates his dreams and aspirations.

Two young women with limited vision discuss their hopes and dreams.

A young man with cerebral palsy rides his bike down a steep Himalayan mountain road in Thimphu.

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A young man in a wheelchair offers prayers at his family’s Buddhist altar.

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Teenage brother and sister Gyembo and Tashi belong to a family that has cared for a Buddhist temple in the Bhutanese mountains for more than a thousand years. With the family legacy weighing heavily on his shoulders, Gyembo is torn between his own aspirations and his father’s wish that he commit to monasticism. Meanwhile, Tashi struggles to find her way as an athletic girl in a culture with rigid views of gender. The siblings must rely on each other as they—and the country they call home—navigate painful questions of identity and modernity in a globalizing world.

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Teenage brother and sister Gyembo and Tashi belong to a family that has cared for a Buddhist temple in the Bhutanese mountains for more than a thousand years. With the family legacy weighing heavily on his shoulders, Gyembo is torn between his own aspirations and his father’s wish that he commit to monasticism. Meanwhile, Tashi struggles to find her way as an athletic girl in a culture with rigid views of gender. The siblings must rely on each other as they—and the country they call home—navigate painful questions of identity and modernity in a globalizing world.

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