Ehrlich, "The Cup," Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Spring 2000

A review published in Tricycle, a magazine written for and largely by Buddhist practitioners rather than an academic journal. Its strength is a practitioner's reading of the film's honesty about monastic life, that monks are human and the monastic code is a goal rather than an already achieved state, and its framing of the film as the first Tibetan story told from a Tibetan perspective on American screens. Its limit is that it is magazine criticism rather than peer reviewed scholarship, so it is cited here for that practitioner perspective and disclosed plainly as such rather than upgraded to something it is not.