POV Season 3 Episode 15 - Ossian: American Boy, Tibetan Monk

Airdate: 1990-Sep-04

Episode summary:

Ossian Maclise is not an average American teenager. Born in Massachusetts, he has been living in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery since the age of four. At seven, his monastic order recognized Ossian as a tulku — a reincarnation of a high Tibetan lama.

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POV (a cinema term for "point of view") is television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. POV premieres 14...Show more >