1000 HANDS OF THE GURU

OFFICIAL SELECTION - Honolulu International Film Festival | OFFICIAL SELECTION - Asian American International Film Festival  Culture • Art • Technology • Spirituality • Vajrayana Buddhism • Scroll Conservation Date of Completion: 2016 | Run Time: 66 minutes | Language: English & Dzongkha | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript | Director: Tobias Reeuwijk | Producer: Paul Lee | Executive Producer: Bey Logan | Director of Photography: John DeMello | Editor: Mieneke Kramer “What if all your aspirations and potential could be rolled into one scroll?” - Ashi Kesang Choden Wangchuck, Royal Scholar and Bhutanese Art Historian.The Kingdom of Bhutan is the only remaining Vajrayana Buddhist country in the world today. The major difference between Vajrayana Buddhism and all other Buddhist sects across Asia is the incorporation of the thangka in meditation. Thangkas are intricately painted scrolls that act as a form of spiritual and historical storytelling, passing on blessings of past sp