Tulku - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • In the 1994 film The Shadow, a mystical tulku trains Lamont Cranston to use his inner darkness to fight crime.
  • In the book Tulku, by Peter Dickinson, a young boy and his companions, fleeing the Boxer Rebellion in China, encounter Tibetan monks awaiting the birth of a tulku.
  • The Green Lama was often referred to as Tulku by his associates.

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