2026 Edition – Golden Eagle of Adventure Loving Karma WEDNESDAY 15 APRIL – 8.45 pm

In the presence of the protagonist, Lobsang Phuntsok

What happens when suffering meets compassion? As a troubled young boy, Lobsang Phuntsok was sent to a Tibetan Buddhist monastery—a process that changed his life and helped him to heal and find his purpose.

After years as a spiritual teacher in the United States, he felt called to return to his birthplace in the remote Indian Himalayas to establish “Jhamtse Gatsal”  (Tibetan for ‘The Garden of Love and Compassion’), a home for wounded children like himself. This community is inspired by the 14th Dalai Lama’s lifelong commitment to compassion and remains today a living example of how pain can be transformed into love.

Loving Karma expands the Emmy-winning short film, “Tashi and the Monk”, into a feature-length documentary by returning to Jhamtse Gatsal twelve years later and revisiting the stories of Lobsang, Tashi and the new arrivals she is learning to care for. Can community and compassion truly heal even the deepest wounds?