Documentary's sneak viewings play to a packed house

Seats were fully booked weeks before The Dakini Code: Lotus-Born Master and the Event Horizon's sneak previews ran at the Auspicious Thanka Gallery in Beijing's 798 Art Zone from April 25-26.

Shot in 2020 in China, India, Nepal and Bhutan, it is the third installment of award-winning American explorer and film director Laurence J. Brahm's Lotus-Born Master documentary series. All the three documentaries are produced by William Lou and Laurence J. Brahm.

In the documentary series, Brahm, who has long cherished a strong interest in Himalayan cultures, tries to align the spiritual and the science--quantum physics and astrophysics in particular.

The documentaries capture his arduous journey to discover the codes to access secret teachings of Guru Padmasambhava, or Lotus-born Master, a legendary 8th-century figure, widely known as the founder of Tibetan Buddhism who travelled extensively along the Southern Silk Road spreading Buddhism.

The film director's previous two works, Searching for the Lotus-Born Master: Eight Manifestations of Quantum Energy (2018), and Return of the Lotus-Born Master- Decrypting the Dakini Code (2019), have received a dozen international film festival awards and accolades.

After this one, Brahm says he will do a fourth Lotus-Born Master-themed film. But this time, this won't be a documentary. It'll be a full-length feature, a low-budget sci-fi, spy movie that tells a twisty, modern-day story, he said, declining to reveal more details.