The Sacred Site for Asceticism

Qingpu is a famous sacred mountain in Tibet where countless monks have practiced for thousands of years In 1989 Wen Pulin and Duan Jinchuan followed several monks up the mountain and took video of them After three years they revisited the same people and got a little closer to understanding their lives As an indepth dialogue with downtoearth rural people in Tibet the film strives to understand Buddhism both as a philosophy but also as a personal choice of lifestyle as a transcendence of the chaos of life