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Review: Gentle satire a Buddhist fable about bringing elections to Bhutan

This gently satiric fable inspired by the 2007-08 elections in Bhutan from writer-director Pawo Choyning Dorji, skewers democracy, politics and Western modernism in humorous Buddhist fashion.

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Monk: A village in Bhutan learns about democracy and teaches us, too

Monk: A village in Bhutan learns about democracy and teaches us, too
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The Monk and the Gun Review: Comic, Biting and Provocative

Comic, biting, entertaining and provocative, Pawo Choyning Dorji’s new film has much to teach Americans about ourselves.

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The Monk and the Gun has lessons on democracy to deliver

Why are you teaching us to be so rude?" the elderly village woman asks a Bhutanese election official in "The Monk and the Gun." It's a question both poignant and biting, because the "teaching" this woman is resisting is something much of the outside world considers a basic human right: the right

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Review: Monk and the Gun is about democracy and much more

We begin with a young monk, Tashi, attendant to a lama, or spiritual leader, traversing a peaceful field to a mountain village, Ura. He's on his way to hear an unusual request: The lama needs a gun. Or two. Before the full moon comes in a few days. "Things need to be made right," he says, cryptically.

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