Back in my teen years when I was growing up in Los Angeles, one of my first jobs there was Foto Mat. It was an okay job and it was part-time because being under 18, I wasn’t allowed to work full-time. I was working and supporting myself, and living at the Dharma centre with Geshe Tsultrim Gyeltsen, where he had an assistant whose name was Barbara. She would write all of his letters and correspondences, she would take his Phone Calls, and she would make his phone calls and pay his bills. Basically, she was his assistant and she was very devoted to Geshe-la but she wasn’t very good with technology (whatever technology we had back then). Anyway, what is incredible is one day I came home and Barbara said that a Joyce from Paramount Studios had called and asked for me. Joyce said they had some work for me, that they’re going to be doing a movie called The Golden Child with Eddie Murphy. The movie had not gone into production yet and they needed someone to help them set up a Tibetan background, altar and scene. They had heard that in Los Angeles, there was a young Mongolian […]