Rinpoche: "Wandering...But Not Lost" (film)

Pasadena Janga; Ashley Wells, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

There is a documentary that tells the story of Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche’s “Wandering Retreat” or carika.

His memoir In Love with the World: A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying tells the story of a socially awkward lama who had to get with it to support Tibetan Buddhism like his family expected of him.

The film is a kind of companion to the book. The film is beautifully shot as Rinpoche tells his own story.

Under cover of darkness with no word of his plans, Vajrayana Meditation Master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche walked away from his life on the international stage to live as a wandering yogi.

There's a lot to cover before and after death

Unheard of among eminent teachers today, such a practice is rife with hardships.

For Rinpoche, these challenges — subsisting on donations trying to find food and shelter, surviving illness, and the attendant risks of wandering incognito from place to place with the barest of possessions — present fertile ground to deepen insight into the true nature of the mind, the heart, and life. It is the activity the historical Buddha prescribed to his male and female disciples.

Wandering... But Not Lost is an intimate account of Rinpoche’s four-and-a-half-year walking retreat (June 2011–November 2015) interspersed with his own guidance in applying Buddhist wisdom to our daily lives that attempts to touch and inspire modern audiences everywhere.