Return to Gandhi Road

Return to Gandhi Road tells the powerful story of Kangyur Rinpoche a renowned Tibetan Master who heeding the imminent danger of the 1950s Cultural Revolution and under the instructions of the Dalai Lama braved the dangerous journey over the Himalayan mountains to India rescuing two tons of Buddhist texts that otherwise faced potential extinction Once in Darjeeling he built a Monastery at 54 Gandhi Road It was here where the few singleminded Westerners in search of a more meaningful life began to arrive in the late 1960s Told through the eyes of one of those first Westerners New Zealander Kim Hegan as he now more than 40 years after Rinpoches passing and his Buddhist practice abandoned will trace the journey he made to Darjeeling 45 years earlier to tell Rinpoches profound story while healing the trauma that kept him away for so long