Ngawang Choephel Movies

Narrated by Goldie Hawn and Peter Coyote, this film is about Nwawang Choephel, a Tibetan-born exile, who, on December 26, 1996, was sentenced to 18 years in prison by the Chinese authorities. Choephel was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study ethnomusicology at Middlebury College, in Vermont....

A look at the life and struggles of the Tibetan people and their culture told through music.

Tibetan monks from an over 500 year old Buddhist group initiate us in their story about banishment and quiet resistance.