Production
The Buddha flashback scenes of Little Buddha were photographed in 65 mm Todd-AO by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro. The rest of the film was filmed in 35 mm anamorphic Technovision.
Jeremy Thomas later remembered making the film:
It was an interest in the story of Siddhartha, and what Tibetan Buddhism meant in Western society after the expulsion from Tibet. It was a very ambitious film, and largely shot in Kathmandu and Bhutan on location. You couldn’t shoot again in Nepal currently, unfortunately that is somewhere off the shooting map. And Bhutan, it was a joy to film in Bhutan... But like many things when you look back of course, trying to promote a film about Buddhism as an epic is maybe a tall order.Thomas formed a bond with the Buthanese Tibetan Buddhist Lama Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche who was an advisor on the film, and went on to help him make several other films such as The Cup (1999) and Travelers and Magicians (2003).
In addition to Kathmandu, another prominent Nepalese location used in the film was the city of Bhaktapur.
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