Tibetan Buddhism in Nepal has grown into one of the largest living Buddhist movements outside Tibet itself, swelled by decades of exiles fleeing China's occupation of their homeland. Anthropologist and National Geographic explorer Wade Davis hosts this look at how the tradition has taken root across the region, moving between Tibetan lay communities settled in Nepali towns, large monasteries and their resident Sanghas, and solitary hermitages tucked into the Himalayan foothills. The film treats these as different scales of the same practice, from household ritual to institutional monastic life to the isolation some monks and nuns choose for years-long retreats. Davis serves as guide rather than narrator at a distance, using the exile community's growth as evidence of how a displaced religion adapts and persists. This is the first of five parts, setting up the terrain and the people before the series moves deeper into specific practices and places. It stays grounded in what is visible: robes, prayer halls, mountain paths, and the daily texture of a faith rebuilding itself outside its own country.