Baasan, a young green-eyed man who is about to become lama, a Buddhist monk. During his training Baasan meets a young herdswoman and they fall in love. In 1938, the newly-installed Communist Government of Mongolia, under orders from Moscow, launches a nation-wide purge. Before it's over, nearly a tenth of the country's population of lamas and northern herders are murdered in the purge. In 2003 a mass grave is unearthed not far from Ulan-Bator, and an old lama is asked to recognize the kind of people who had been murdered ...
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Baasan, a young green-eyed man who is about to become lama, a Buddhist monk. During his training Baasan meets a young herdswoman and they fall in love. In 1938, the newly-installed Communist Government of Mongolia, under orders from Moscow, launches a nation-wide purge. Before it's over, nearly a tenth of the country's population of lamas and northern herders are murdered in the purge. In 2003 a mass grave is unearthed not far from Ulan-Bator, and an old lama is asked to recognize the kind of people who had been murdered from their garments.
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