Three films made in 1977 across the Tibetan diaspora in India, Nepal, and Ladakh, following the culture that survived exile intact. Part I is shot in the Dalai Lama's residence in Dharamsala and the rebuilt Sera Monastery, watching him move between head of state and teacher while young monks train through debate and solitary meditation. Part II travels to the village of Boudha in Nepal, where lamas of the Phulwary Sakya Monastery build an intricate cosmogram and perform a tantric ritual invoking the deity Tara, with commentary drawn from the teachings of Dudjom Rinpoche. Part III sits in the mountains of Ladakh, tracking monks and farmers through an ordinary day before ending on a monastery's response to a death in the community, its rituals guiding the departed through the intermediate state described in the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Narrated by Thupten Jinpa, the trilogy stays close to daily practice rather than explaining it from outside, letting debate halls, retreat caves, and funeral rites carry the film.