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Director
  
Werner Herzog

Initial DVD release
  
October 25, 2005

Duration
  

Country
  
Germany United Kingdom France Italy

7.2/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Documentary

Screenplay
  
Werner Herzog

Writer
  
Werner Herzog

Language
  
English

Wheel of Time (film) movie poster

Release date
  
2003

Initial release
  
October 30, 2003 (Germany)

Cast
  
The Dalai Lama
(Himself),
Lama Lhundup Woeser
(Himself),
Takna Jigme Sangpo
(Himself),
Matthieu Ricard
(Himself),
Madhureeta Anand
(Himself),
Tenzin Dhargye
(Himself)

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Wheel of Time is a 2003 documentary film by German director Werner Herzog about Tibetan Buddhism. The title refers to the Kalachakra sand mandala that provides a recurring image for the film.

Wheel of Time (film) movie scenes

The film documents the two Kalachakra initiations of 2002, presided over by the fourteenth Dalai Lama. The first, in Bodhgaya India, was disrupted by the Dalai Lama's illness. Later that same year, the event was held again, this time without disruption, in Graz, Austria. The film's first location is the Bodhgaya, the site of the Mahabodhi Temple and the Bodhi tree. Herzog then turns to the pilgrimage at Mount Kailash, after which the film then focuses on the second gathering in Graz.

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Herzog includes a personal interview with the Dalai Lama, as well as Tibetan former political prisoner Takna Jigme Zangpo, who served 37 years in a Chinese prison for his support of the International Tibet Independence Movement.

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