"Many films have been made on Tibet, such as Bernardo Bertolucci's Little Buddha (1993) and Jean-Jacques Annaud's Seven Years in Tibet (1997). Do these films reflect reality? The Dalai Lama responds: “I can talk about Kundun (1998), the Martin Scorcese film, for which Harrison Ford and his wife came to see me. I took the opportunity to correct the errors, particularly the fact that it did not adequately depict the horrors that the Tibetan people have had to endure since 1950. In fact, Harrison Ford and his wife began to cry when I told them some of these horrors. » Since then, this great actor has become a devotee of Tibet and even managed to release Riching Geyde, a Tibetan guide arrested by the Chinese when he tried to give Western tourists information about human rights in Tibet . “This is why,” notes the Dalai Lama, “that these films, however Hollywood they may be, have allowed the world to become aware of the plight of the Tibetan people. He adds: “I actually saw Little Buddha by Bertolucci, and I really liked it, even if, as a disciple of Prince Gautama, I cannot imagine that an actor, however good he may be, can embody what the Buddha represents. But at least this film introduced Buddhism to the West – and that's great. » And he concludes with a smile: “Do you know that to counterbalance the film Kundun, which was a worldwide success, the Chinese made their own version of Kundun, which was so bad that even Chinese audiences didn't like it? ""