Everyman

The Trials of Telo Rlnpoche (1994x3)

Air date: Mar 20, 1994

How does a 21-year-old American come to terms with being regarded as a messiah? Telo Rinpoche, aka Eddie Ombadykow , was brought up in a Tibetan monastery and recognised by the Dalai Lama as a high reincarnate lama. Now back in his homeland, Kalmykia in Russia, the young Buddhist monk struggles to accept his unusual destiny.