Credits
Producer-Director
Ed Bastian, PhD
Co-Producer
Sharpa Tulku
Music Composer
Nawang Khechog
Flute music donated to this film by Emmy nominated composer and his wife Tsering Khechog for the long life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Executive Producer, Co-Producer
Catherine Wyler
Editor – Co-Producer/Writer
Jennifer Beman
Mandala Art Animation
Pema Namdro Thaye – Padma Studio
Content Editor
Professor Roger Jackson
Interviewees
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Geshe Lhundrup Sopa
Linda Atkins
Mike Atkins
Fran Barone
Marty Bleyer
José Cabezón
John Davenport
Tom Driscoll
Brian Gabria
Morgan Groves
Jeffrey Hopkins
Roger Jackson
Cathy Kennedy
Patrice Kennedy
Ed Minihan
David Patt
Losang Samten
Lundrup Tendron
Sharpa Tulku
Vesna Wallace
Jim Westbrook
Jan Willis
Content Advisors
Daniel Aiken
Arja Rinpoche
José Cabezón
Jhado Rinpoche
Laura Harrington
Yangsi Rinpoche
Jeffrey Hopkins
Geshe Lhundrup Sopa
Roger Jackson
Robert Thurman
Galvin Kilty
Sharpa Tulku
John R. Newman
Vesna Wallace
Losang Samten
Jan Willis
Opening Narration
Juliet Rhode-Brown
Additional Graphics
Christine Felter
Production Team 1981
Camera
Mark Samels
Sound
Tom Naunas
Production Team 2016 & 2023
Sage Mountain Films
Cage Free Productions
Jim Whitney
Paul Lynch
Tomorrow Pictures
Frederick Taylor
Production Advisors
Michael Camerini
Shari Robertson
Cynthia Kane
Additional Editors
Jim Whitney
Emmanuel Mairesse
Assistant Editors
Tessa Fredericks
Rachel Graves
Production Assistant
Mikaila Schmitt
Colorist
Ted Snavely
Online Editor
Polly Bryan
Audio Mix & Sound Design
Charles Sovek
Smithsonian Human Studies Film Archive
Mark White
Film Digital Scanning
ColorLab
Stock Footage Research
Brian Leonard
Stock Footage
Brian Beresford, courtesy LYWA
Cornell University Library
Deer Park Buddhist Center and Monastery
Paul Donnelly
David Farrell, Archival Trust
Getty Images
Cathy Hasslinger, Town of Dunn
Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
Middleburg College Special Collections
Kalleen Mortensen
Periscope Film
Tibet Museum
Wikimedia Commons
Wisconsin Historical Society
Audio Network
Music Clearance
Zach Sinick
With Special thanks to our Contributors
Ann Arnold
Kevin Brine
Caroline Gabel
Shared Earth Foundation
Morgan Groves
Patrice Kennedy
Pritzker Art Collective
Ed Minihan
Fu Mei Su
Anna Wolfe
Catherine Wyler