Unmistaken Child – Official Trailer

The Buddhist concept of reincarnation, while both mysterious and enchanting, is hard for most westerners to grasp. Unmistaken Child follows the 4-year search for the reincarnation of Lama Konchog, a world-renowned Tibetan master who passed away in 2001 at age 84. The Dalai Lama charges the deceased monk’s devoted disciple, Tenzin Zopa (who had been in his service since the age of seven), to search for his master’s reincarnation.

Tenzin sets off on this unforgettable quest on foot, mule and even helicopter, through breathtaking landscapes and remote traditional Tibetan villages. Along the way Tenzin listens to stories about young children with special characteristics, and performs rarely seen ritualistic tests designed to determine the likelihood of reincarnation. He eventually presenst the child he believes to be his reincarnated master to the Dalai Lama sot that he can make the final decision.

Unmistaken Child – Official movie trailer courtesy of Oscilloscope

According to the scriptures, the Buddha taught a concept of rebirth that was distinct from that of any known contemporary Indian teacher.  This concept was consistent with the common notion of a sequence of related lives stretching over a very long time, but was constrained by two core Buddhist concepts: annatta, that there is no irreducible atman or “self” tying these lives together; and anicca, that all compounded things are subject to dissolution, including all the components of the human person and personality.  At the death of one personality, a new one comes into being, much as the flame of a dying candle can serve to light the flame of another.

Buddhism suggests that samsara, the process of rebirth,  occurs across five or six realms of existence. It is said in Tibetan Buddhism that it is very rare for a person to be reborn in the immediate next life as a human. This depends on the karmic potentialities (or “seeds”) they have created with their actions and upon their state of mind at the time of death. If we die with a peaceful mind, this will stimulate a virtuous seed and we shall experience a fortunate rebirth; but if we die with a disturbed mind, in a state of anger, say, this will stimulate a non-virtous seed and we shall experience an unfortunate rebirth. This is similar to the way in which nightmares are triggered by our being in an agitated state of mind just before falling asleep.

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