Dalai Lama Renaissance
is the soundtrack to the award-winning film directed by
Khashyar Darvich
and narrated by
Harrison Ford
. The film focuses on a working retreat hosted by His Holiness
Tenzin Gyatso
, the 14th
Dalai Lama
during which he invited 40 pivotal Western thinkers to discuss and try to come up with the solutions for problems confronting the modern world. Over 140 hours of video footage were distilled into an 80-minute film. The soundtrack features prayers and chants by Tibetan Buddhist monks, and narration by
Ford
. As a disc for simply listening, it works just fine, but heard in the context of seeing the film, it is delightful. ~ Thom Jurek