Original subtitles

oh

[Music]

[Music]

so

[Music]

[Music]

wow

[Music]

[Music]

mongolia

the land of the blue sky

is one of the last truly remote places

in the world

it has a unique rich culture and history

and is unlike any other place on earth

[Music]

this film is a journey into the life of

one of mongolia's national treasures

is the rector and head lama at mamba

datsun monastery in ulaanbaatar

he is head professor at otosh

university

and the chief medical doctor at manda

datsun traditional medicine hospital

he has dedicated his life to help the

people under his care

all mongolians

and all humanity

we will witness hamba lama's life in

action as a world wisdom keeper and see

how he is a bridge between the past

present and future and a keeper of his

people's knowledge culture and beliefs

[Music]

foreign

[Music]

foreign

[Music]

oh

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

foreign

[Music]

foreign

[Music]

foreign

[Music]

foreign

[Music]

foreign

[Music]

foreign

foreign

foreign

is

me

[Music]

[Laughter]

no this is

[Music]

foreign

[Music]

okay

[Music]

is

days please you welcome joint with us

our mongolian tradition very special day

i am a student of buddha

and i follow buddhist way

i'm very simple person very simple

but my heart is fixed

[Music]

and world is in my heart

humanity also in my heart

it's

our mind is not

limited

we can reach it

all beings

so that's why

we are also praying buddha

community is very

special

beings

we have

mind and knowledge

so that's we must do

good things we must to help others

not just thinking about

myself myself is a very small

point so that's why i believe

community

karma is

exactly

exist after our life

not this life again continuing next

steps so that's why we

really

want to stop

bad karmas

also you see especially in mongolian the

people can

happy

with families and relatives

this night

[Music]

and we are respecting each other and

talking and enjoying each other together

with family relatives and friends

thank you

many many people today

eating this kind of

tradition food

a traditional lunar new year meal with

his family and an old friend who's

arrived from london to join the

celebrations

constantine pavlidis is a wisdom keeper

of the pontian hellenic people from the

black sea

okay

when the new year

many many people

drinking

sour very nice

um

[Music]

this night

at 11 o'clock

mom dad

monastery starting

and make a special ceremony citrus

samoa is

very special power protection

waiteriana buddhism this normal

protection is

in buddhist peoples

this night go around our world looking

people

[Music]

[Music]

so maybe

people don't know this certain

ceremonies which is very important for

humanity

maybe

now people know about

in the future we always connect with you

[Music]

our

[Music]

it is 5 am and minus 25 degrees celsius

on lunar new year morning

the people of ulambata start their new

year by going to a hilltop and

performing the ritual and mantra that

their llama or monk has given them

this will bring them good health and

good luck for the coming year

[Music]

foreign

[Music]

foreign

foreign

after being up all night chanting for

the health and well-being of all

humanity

the lamb has welcome their leader with

the traditional mongolian greeting

and an exchange of snuff bottles

snuff bottles are part of day-to-day

life in mongolia and is a practice that

goes back thousands of years

they like other visitors at luna new

year each receive a bowl of fermented

horse milk arig a slice of lamb and a

small gift

ambalama also offers them a special

nectar which has been blessed and

chanted over for 20 years

[Music]

a large family gathering as a central

part of the lunar new year celebrations

[Music]

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

foreign

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

oh

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

the

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

hamburlama and constantine visit the

impressive genghis khan statue which is

a couple of hours outside ulaanbaatar

this symbolizes the respect the mongols

have for their formidable leader

who made a significant imprint on their

history

foreign

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

is

[Music]

foreign

foreign

[Music]

and constantine take an early morning

trip 40 kilometers out of the city to

visit a place where he's planning to

retire

but prior to that build a new healing

and meditation center

when i come here

my good luck is increasing to grow up

then i am really happy to do

good chantings here

and of course

nature

also can listen us

what we are

what is my

good heart

hambalama and constantine are invited to

share lunch with his herdsmen and wife

in their traditional girl

[Music]

foreign

i have also horses and i ask about

horses we are transcended

different places approximately more 200

kilometers

because this area is very cold and also

in

surrounding mountains also

walls

wolves also

so that's why it's

more dangerous for

horses

this is

also comes from

milk you see mongolian nermed please you

try yes i'll try

oh

it's very special very special

[Music]

why i have some animals it is

my father mother

have hats man

so that's why i just keeping my

father mother's

that's my lineage

knowledge

and enjoy it

in mongolia during the communist period

what happened before communism in

mongolia has a really buddhist country

we have a lot of with this culture and

a lot of monasteries

there are many many thousand monks can

learn in buddhism and

make them practice in mongolia during

communist time we have been very bad

events and bad karmas for example during

communist time destroying more 1000

monasteries and temples also you see 45

60 000

monks

they can kill really oh yeah

[Music]

what's

[Music]

some of his closest friends for a

special dinner to mark the end

of the lunar new year celebrations

is my very close friends which i study

in the mongolian

university

i'm a friend of

hamburlama since my student time

and

at the time when we studied in

university english language i feel very

warm-hearted when

i happen something

just bad things

and then every time i asked help to him

and

just anytime he can pick up his

telephone and he can give me advice or

he can come and so

very warm heart

very warmth

he was our kind of you know

leading person yeah so we try to be

to be like him

yeah i liked him because

he knew a lot first time i think

opened our eyes

in terms of buddhism and religion

how it is helpful in our

spiritual

hearts

foreign

foreign

foreign

[Applause]

[Music]

but a real friend is somebody whom even

you don't met every time

you still keep him inside he's one of

this kind of people

i'm very very happy

because

mostly 30 years ago we are

starting mongolian university

in english

department so since that time we are

also meeting each other

[Music]

and when we were prepared you know

homework at home he used to tell us

he's very strong close your closing

books and you know we have we had to

stand and to repeat all the words

in front of him

he just checked us you know every every

every student you know it's like he's a

teacher happy you are all

big hot

[Music]

so

[Music]

hmm

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

ah

it's 7am

and the llamas arrive at manba-datsun

monastery to prepare and start the day

with three hours of chanting

they are part of the vasriana lineage of

mongolian tibetan buddhism

manahi

[Music]

foreign

foreign

[Music]

[Music]

the governors of llamas some have

traveled 1500 kilometers to greet him

for the lunar new year

hamba lama is planning a very special

pilgrimage to his homeland

in zavkhan province

um

foreign

[Music]

foreign

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

has built up a uniquely important and

valuable collection of over 9 000

handwritten buddhist books called sutras

some of which are hundreds of years old

the basis of all his teachings and

learning

this

sort of

we are collecting different places from

mongolia tibet and different countries

there is philosophy buddhist arts

medicine astronomy boxes and also many

different literatures

we are keeping our mongolian heritage

this sutra is nameless

sister mccain

then mongolian very prime minister maram

it means medical doctors and a scholar

he

wrote this book

beginning 19th century

this book is very very important book

for traditional medical for example

which jewelers can use

which is stones

which minerals

which herbals plants this is called now

mongolian language and tibetan language

and chinese language

it's including

more 700 plants and herbals and minerals

which place

they have how to can use

[Music]

this is

also

when i

beginning started buddhism in the

medicine

since that

my teacher

also teach me

and

teacher give me

homework

how to read

and today i proceed into reading this

and

it's a very

humble and kindness

giving for me i remember my teacher

and i

respected my teacher so it's very very

important

during this communism time is

who want to teach others it was very

difficult it was some

hidden way secret way

they can teach and

learning

[Music]

every day

every moment i can learning and

to help

to others so that's why i must to learn

every day every moment

be humility

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

foreign

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

knows people from the whole spectrum of

society

the first president and first prime

minister of modern mongolia give us a

snapshot of their history and offer a

sense of where things are today for

mongolia

it wasn't

m

is a key aspect of hamba lama's work

he and his team are able to train and

educate new generations of doctors

who learn his traditional medical system

and practice

um

a medical doctor i graduated medical

school in mongolia in 1981

i'm a clinical pharmacologist

and i have studied many countries in

moscow russia

nanjing china

usa in harvard university

habalam

not only lama

he's a very good medical doctor

first time we met when he

tried to establish this university

it was the time of the democracy and

open economy in mongolia after socialism

it was

very small medical school

now it is developed to

university

of mongolian traditional medicine

now studying

at our university there are

600 students

44 specialty

at first mongolian traditional medicine

second pharmacy

thirdly traditional medical nurse

and buddhology

it's a six years degree program

so we could get a bachelor's degree in

traditional mongolian medicine

so it involves some different kinds of

um

diagnostic approach and medical

therapies and external therapies and

things like that how we can prevent

people from becoming ill

and how we can cure people with them

without any antibiotics

last 26 years

every year about

100 students come

to study this

medical university 50 doctors

been graduated it means

it will a very high

quality

training

our students are studying

at first

of course tibetan language because all

books are raised in tibetan

in mongolia we have so many written

plans we're trying to collect

study

and

we need to

do scientifical evidence

of the result of

traditional mongolian medicine our

university

is studying two very important missile

plants one is

artemisia

second is south

maybe important to the treatment of

cancer

and nowadays we

trying to

do new medicine from

this plant

foreign

travels to london for the first time in

10 years

he makes an impression at tower bridge

and later will give a lecture on the

science and power of mantra at the oracy

center founded and run by his friend

constantine

yeah i think some part of the london is

very well changed and people will still

have country my purpose come to london

is i would like to meet

some old friends and new friends i would

like to give some lecture

my lectures topic is healing mantra and

body and mind and also i would like to

talk about mongolian medical system

development and the worry what is the

situation in this modern time

[Music]

good evening everybody

i'm very happy you come to join us this

such nice evening

and i would like to thank you

constantine and annika

and watching to london

come

to

back after more ten years

human being is very very important

things

from sixth division

this is in buddhism heaven unheaven and

human being animal ghost and heel we are

go around

many different lives according karmas

that are for example we are collecting

good karmas collecting collecting

collecting different life

then one

chances become human being

[Music]

hanba lama is the chief medical doctor

at manba datsun traditional mongolian

medicine hospital and treats patients

every day he has unique healing powers

and people come to him from all over the

world

foreign

foreign

foreign

[Music]

[Music]

foreign

foreign

foreign

yes

foreign

be

[Music]

i've been here for

10 days

two weeks ago something happened to me

i felt really horrible my body ached all

over

and the local doctors in my city they

couldn't understand what was going on

and they

couldn't help me even couldn't reduce my

pain she has many difficult symptoms

headache

and also stomach very pain

and liver kidney and low back and also

some gynecological problems

today i

was ready here

it is really good

i was talking to llamas i had some

ceremonies here to protect

to get something bad that came to me

to get it up so

i feel really happy about being here

very comfortable

with

at the manba datsun monastery they

worship the medicine buddha which is a

central part of their practice the

students come together three times a

year

and chant all night to the medicine

buddha

today we have very special ceremony

medicine but in mama tatsu

it means not only just mongolian this

special image we are wishing

all human being

and also all beings

medicine buddha

teachings

44

vows and teachings

human being and all beings it's very

very

important teachings

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

inside these teachings we have about

cancer

disease and also

many many

types of kind of disease which we have

happened this modern time

so that's why medicine buddha

also how to prevention many kind of

diseases and how to treat it so that's

why we are learning many many years this

medicine buddha tradition medical system

for example in mongolia is four

different seasons

so that's the mongolian people how to

creation four differences in our health

our body have

five type of elements so that's why

how we make really connected each other

how we can respecting and how we really

very friendly to live

we are distracting many natural things

in this world now so that's why these

things came back our

health wrong way

[Music]

please

you must understanding

negatives

evil spirits

evil experiences sometimes comes our

mind

heart

another thing is you see also moon and

sun yeah

and how this moon sun and

28

planet

this

also influencing

for us

every moment

so that's why we know how we can protect

it if someone happens these things how

we can treat to clean it we know we

bought

mongolian people is using organic and

natural food so that's why we are very

healthy

food is very important ingredient

behavior behavior include is

body

spoken and mind so that's why we are

very pay attention

how we work with our mind i understand

in this world is big problem

mentality

disease

[Music]

medicine buddha says

human being alone

until

100 years more over the 100 years old

good possible to live

long life so that's why we know how we

can reach it hundreds and more hundred

years old so that's why please we must

learn each other

and we can

sharing our

super

important

truth

knowledge it's very very important

[Music]

foreign

um

[Music]

foreign

[Music]

him

[Music]

mr

[Music]

is

[Music]

oh

[Music]

[Applause]

foreign

[Music]

[Music]

among mongolians buddhism is a big

tradition it's part of our culture today

is the eighth of my asian

calendar so kind of like last day that

you have to

prepare for the coming year which is

just began

and this year's rooster years so um we

came here

all our relatives and then we are

praying

just to make this coming year uh more uh

balanced

in all the good ways and in all the

positive ways

[Music]

after careful planning

hambur lama travels to his homeland of

zavkhan province

on a pilgrimage to his place of birth to

meet family and relive his youth

it's a two and a half hour flight and

then he will travel in a convoy of four

by fours into the remote countryside

both the provincial and some governors

greet hamburlama at zavkhan province

airport they will accompany him on a

special journey that covers challenging

environments and relies on the skills of

local drivers

and powerful prayers

foreign

on route to his song

hamba lama visits the site of a ruined

monastery and recalls the story of the

discovery of an ancient gold conch horn

[Music]

in 1866 so they built a

medical

mam monastery in here

and they are training

medical doctors

also their tantra mantra

and also philosophy

wendy around

50 years ago

man is looking animals in this place

this has many looking silk things is

moved

by

wind

he thought oh maybe something is in here

these

gold

conches come out

that time one very important

llama is also living

in the

sum these hats man bringing this crunch

to this llama

this lama is really happy because he

knows this country from the saudi gray

places

[Music]

they're telling

his family please you give this

special crunch

to

nassau

lama

since that time

i got this

keeping and sometimes i

making this conch blue and

dharma

[Music]

this is my

uh

burst land it takes from here 70

kilometers

more 70 kilometer then now in the

springtime road is not good this time

but we will go to very safety our land

[Music]

[Music]

it's 2 a.m

and -25 degrees celsius

but the people of hamburlama's song are

waiting at the border of their territory

to greet him

each song have their own vast lands and

animals that the people look after and

managed

[Applause]

[Music]

[Laughter]

[Music]

[Music]

i was really happy

because these people come to see me

[Music]

they are talking about how to our

savant jerusalem

development many things will change

today's journey was very successful

and also

i thought maybe it takes more time but

it's very very

come very fast

yeah very safety

also you need to understanding how we

bought mongolian roti some

road is

nice some is

more difficult with rock and

snowy mustang

foreign

now we have boom boom holder

this is called boom boom holder

this is

our very special

place this is you you can see this

hill

then it is

people is

when the people

normative people moved it summer plus

and in spring place

they can go this

little hill

now

now here we are going my first place

[Music]

here yeah i also go here and look after

animals

this place

i remember

if we don't

not duty this

look after animals we are carrying water

and wood yeah carrying all drinking and

a lot of work we do very busy days every

day and also we can do

hp mom how to producing music products

yeah

sometimes men can do

mostly women

but

if there is

woman having something

then

men also how to boil milk

hambalama is determined to reach the

exact place where his family lived when

he was born

the snow is too deep even for the high

bodied 4x4 vehicle

[Music]

thank

he makes it

before the jeep gets stuck

this is a hugely emotional moment for

hamburlama

he has not been back here since he was a

child yes

my best

[Music]

now i'm my first place

i was

born in 1957

ninth of april i'm very happy

how i was born

in this class

[Music]

[Music]

i

really recognize

my father mother

how they can carrying us

[Music]

and how they

can help

which i come like that

my father mother i think there was very

good karma well-being things then i can

was born

so that's why i

really recognize in my father's

benefits

and i pray

for them

i really feel

now good energy in here because today's

uci

now i

reborn

i can pray in my

then in mongolia you see when we reach

it people come in the

first place they can touching

and go around like that and praying it's

it means

respecting birthplace and also getting

energy giving energy each other because

you see my blood

lumb plum lump

long blood is here

[Music]

when i was

born that time you see

my

elder

sister

she told me

how i can was was born what is that

happened yeah then she told me this day

when you was one

very very good time

very

nice warm and

that time also you see

grass growing and greeny beginning green

in time

and people is happy

my father is usually a little tall man

and my father is very kind

never

he

to say

strong words for us

my

father is also very

look like very beautiful man

mother is very very gentle very kind

very compassionate very good mother is

really very

smooth very soft

[Music]

human life is

[Music]

very interesting

life so that's why i happened a lot of

special memory

so

now i want to make special ceremony in

my best place

i

it means i okay thank you my father

mother my family yeah and also thank you

this natural

i was universe and i was born here and i

also gift from

buddhist way some special

gift

and with mantra and special

altar

um

[Music]

[Music]

oh

um

will come to my home

welcome to my home please sit down

this isn't

this is my

sister's

daughter

she's coming from guava for instance

[Music]

the

[Music]

[Music]

today you see it's very occasionally

we are no planet

then

she's coming

in my first place

it's

very interesting life is go around

maybe

my

father

mother

my sister

have looked

[Music]

[Laughter]

a

on a hilltop above the village hambalama

meets with a large number of people from

the sum and surrounding areas

five years ago hambalama commissioned

the eight medicine buddha statues to be

built

foreign

foreign

foreign

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

foreign

this

family is my relatives so that's why

some of my littles comes from

very long way by talking what

their life conditions

and

what they really want to do something

i also tell you my suggestion

you must like this kind of

job or you can walk like that

i tell you something

i was really exciting which i come to my

birthplace

and i recognizing

my father mother it could

memory many years ago maybe 50

years ago i go in some places so that's

why i

really

recognizing

and looking in my eyes and

remember in my heart very very specially

[Music]

it's 6 am

the day starts early in the remote

mountain ger where hamba llama stayed

last night

[Music]

[Music]

hmm

[Music]

this is

[Music]

message

[Music]

[Music]

foreign

[Music]

[Music]

this is the heart of

mongolia the nomadic life of the

mongolian herdsmen is one of the purest

forms of existence in the world today

they are a clear example of natural law

humans

working in harmony with nature

[Music]

this morning it was very good

very nice

i

listen

nature sound and also i looking in the

normatic life

recognizing how i was in childhood

and this morning is sunrise very nice

and also people is early in the work

here and

hatzman work is

beginning early

always very interesting people is very

clever how to work with the animal

but really this is

super natural they also have a lot of

knowledge about

nature and

animals

how they can suit to living each other

and how to belong with each other they

know very well

i think it's very important knowledge

how to people understand the

normatic life also this natural life

even this time you say many people don't

know natural land

just cities

just narrow minds

hats when thinking

right

peaceful and very silent

and also healthy life

very hard food is organic nature and

pressure

every day

no any rushing no any

too

much stresses

human beings always follow natural law

also usually human body

nature is also connected to each other

in buddhism and traditional medicine say

natural have also

five different elements

our human body also five type elements

so that's how we can

switch each other how we're influencing

each other how we can supporting each

other then we can

to live balance

and healthy

[Music]

foreign

[Music]

foreign

here

hurt

fish

foreign

oh

[Music]

in a valley where spring has come early

hamburlama joins his herdsmen to wrangle

some horses

this is the first time he's done this in

40 years

[Music]

[Music]

hmm

[Music]

[Music]

mm-hmm

[Music]

uh

[Music]

so

[Music]

hey

[Applause]

[Music]

[Music]

today's very fantastic day

i've become

righty horsemen

so

i really recognize in my childhood

because my

father's family living in the winter

place in here so that's why we are also

in there

which i growing here we also catching

horses and riding horses and look after

us and other animals yeah so that's why

today's i'm very happy

the last stop on the pilgrimage is an

early morning visit to the sacred ottom

tenga mountain

which all mongolians revered

[Music]

foreign

foreign

[Music]

foreign

[Music]

take

[Music]

is

[Music]

foreign

[Music]

over the past month

we have witnessed through the eyes of

this remarkable man

a unique world and fascinating culture

[Music]

we've seen hamburlama natsuk dorj

is without doubt a keeper of his

people's wisdom

[Music]

his life is a strong example of what is

good in humanity

his selfless sacrifice brings healing

and positive change to the lives of many

people in mongolia

and around the world

[Music]

[Music]

me

[Music]

hey

[Music]

hey

[Music]

oh

[Music]

you