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...remarkably open-minded; he is eager to entertain and then to accept the beliefs and rhythms of another, older culture. The film's loveliest sections are those that concern the life of Siddhartha, the Indian prince who renounced worldly pleasures and religious extremism to find the Middle Way of Buddhist truth. Siddhartha is played with improbable persuasiveness by Keanu Reeves, another of Bertolucci's eccentric choices in Little Buddha that...
After 30 years of making passionately skeptical movies, Bertolucci has made a film of the most sophisticated simplicity. His triumph is to make you see the Buddhist world through his eyes. It shines like innocence reincarnated...
...welcoming ceremony for the new contender, however, turned into a melee, and the boy spent the next few weeks under the guard of 300 monks and 400 combat-ready Europeans from a militant Buddhist school run by a Danish ex- boxer. Meanwhile, each side has hinted darkly that the other may have engineered the fatal 1992 car crash; each claims that the other may be a pawn of the Chinese. Shamar says of his rival regent, "Tai Situ is degenerate, and the people around him are like, why . . . like gangsters." Members of the opposing camp like to point out that...
...under India's constitutional guarantee of religious freedom; he predicted last week, "The outcome of this issue will be two branches of Black Hat Buddhism." That may leave many believers feeling a little like Shamar's young candidate when he received visitors at the fortress-like New Delhi Karmapa Buddhist Institute two weeks ago. Throughout the meeting, the would-be spiritual leader said nothing. But his eyes darted about nervously; he occasionally gulped deep breaths; and his hands were constantly wringing...
...Tibetan Buddhist sect knows a child shall lead it--but which...