Unmistaken child (2008)

Tibetan Buddhism teaches the transmigration of souls and more specifically, the reincarnation of its high lamas. It falls to the task of every high lama's most favoured disciple to seek out his reincarnation.

Yet who knows if reincarnation even works?

We find out from the point of view of the Tenzin Zopa's favourite disciple at the point of his death, the institution of the search committee, and various points of his search.


Read my full review at Fridae, first published on 26 May 2010.