PATHS OF THE SOUL An astonishing journey of redemption, faith, and devotion. Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Zhang Yang (Shower, Getting Home) blurs the border between documentary and fiction to follow a group of Tibetan villagers who leave their families and homes in the small village of Nyima to make a Buddhist "bowing pilgrimage”–laying their bodies flat on the ground after every few steps–along the 1,200 mile road to Lhasa, the holy capital of Tibet. In Tibetan with titles. (117 mins)

 

Nicole Willock, Ph.D., an asst. professor of Asian Religions at ODU with a specialty in Tibetan Buddhist studies, will discuss the film after the showing.

 

"There's never been a road movie quite like PATHS OF THE SOUL, an extraordinary chronicle of ordinary Tibetan citizens undertaking a 1,200-mile pilgrimage to Lhasa... a stirring study in faith and spirituality that will inspire many viewers to think about big and small questions of life." – Richard Kuipers, Variety

 

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