Unmistaken Child. A 4 year journey to find a master teacher.

Sept. 21, 2010 - PRLog -- Full Article available at http://socialeditionnews.com/entertainment/unmistaken-child

The Buddhist concept of reincarnation, while both mysterious and enchanting, is hard for most westerners to grasp. Unmistaken Child follows the 4-year search for the reincarnation of Lama Konchog, a world-renowned Tibetan master who passed away in 2001 at age 84. The Dalai Lama charges the deceased monk’s devoted disciple, Tenzin Zopa (who had been in his service since the age of seven), to search for his master’s reincarnation.

Nati Baratz’s new documentary Unmistaken Child is a real time documentation of the search for a reincarnated Tibetan master, told through the eyes of his lifelong disciple. Visually stunning, emotionally gripping, and shot over the course of four years, the film follows an ages-old sacred quest through the eyes of a remarkable attendant.

After 26 years of isolated meditation in a mountain cave, Lama Konchog became worldly renowned as one of the greatest Tibetan Masters of our times. In 2001, at the age of 84, he passed away and his shy and devoted disciple, Tenzin Zopa, was instructed by the Dalai Lama to search for his master’s reincarnation. The ‘unmistaken child’ must be found within 4 years, before it becomes too difficult to separate him from his parents.

His search crosses lands, passing though starkly beautiful mountains and small villages that appear to be unchanged for hundreds of years. Assisted byastrology, signs in dreams and the whispers of villagers, Tenzin travels by helicopter, mule and foot, and when he does come upon an apparent contender, we join Tenzin and his young charge through the mysterious procedures that will—or will not—confirm the reincarnation. We have seen similar tests before in movies like Martin Scorcese’s Kundun; but to witness the real thing is even more magical.

While Unmistaken Childbrings to light a rarely seen aspect of the Buddhist faith, the true revelation is the journey of Tenzin the man. Modest, shy, but with a delightfully impish sense of humour, we come to know a man who appears to be of another time and place and yet is profoundly living in the present. Alone on his quest, he is only able to share his thoughts and feelings with filmmaker Baratz and his simple honesty and unselfconsciousness make the viewer a privileged partner in Tenzin’s passage to the next phase of his remarkable life.

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