From Selection comes information {that a} new movie impressed by the lives of the sainted eleventh-century Tibetan Buddhist figures Jetsun Milarepa and Marpa Lotsawa will likely be coming quickly (although no official date appears to have been introduced but). Titled Milarepa and written and directed by Italian filmmaker Louis Nero, the movie is certain to encourage curiosity in addition to debate by means of its unconventional casting.
Shot largely in Sardinia, the movie — which isn’t to be confused with the 2006 movie of the identical identify by Neten Chokling — is ready in a “no tech” sci-fi close to future and doesn’t function Tibetans. Slightly, Milarepa/Mila right here is performed right here as a younger woman by Les Miserables actor Isabelle Allen, and her guru, Marpa is performed by Harvey Keitel. Additionally included within the solid are F. Murray Abraham and Angela Molina. (You’ll be able to see a picture of Keitel as Marpa in Selection’s story, right here.)
A trailer of the movie, and different particulars, are nonetheless to be launched, however we’ll share them right here when accessible.
Within the meantime, why not familiarize (or re-familiarize) your self with Milarepa’s story and teachings with “Who Was Milarepa?”, a Lion’s Roar article detailing what’s identified in regards to the man referred to as the “Lord of Yogis” and a real inspiration for the Tibetan individuals?
Marpa and his guru Milarepa’s are each thought-about forefathers (together with Gampopa) of the Kagyu faculty of Tibetan Buddhism, and so are a part of the lineage of the Six Dharmas of Naropa, the “quick observe to awakening” explored intimately in Buddhadharma’s Six Dharmas of Naropa challenge, out now. You’ll be able to learn Pema Khandro’s overview of the Six Dharmas from that challenge right here.
