Telegrams from Buryatia (2010)

Lama Karam Dorzh, with a secular name Igor Nikolayevitch Arduyev, is doing his everyday work in in a monastery in village of Kyren, in Republic of Buryatia. In this place in the middle of Siberia, next to Mongolia, local people have still maintained their own language, customs and traditions.
In village of Kyren one can see fascinating mix of different ways of living: buddhistic Buryatia and nowadays´ Russia. In this film lama Igor tells his life-story, talks about his way of looking at things and about buddhism in general. Between the Igor´s monologues one can see scenes of the life in Kyren village in modern Buryatia.