For the third part to his Yatra trilogy, which focuses on lost Buddhist traditions of Southeast Asia, John Bush made a pilgrimage into Tibet, bringing with him his video camera and a desire to show an exclusive look at the region's culture on its way out of existence. He traveled throughout the occupied land, visiting temples and festivals, as though he were simply a tourist, but he was able to capture and expose what has been done and what is being done to the area, as no documentary has done before.

Tragically, the end result is in the form of Vajra Sky Over Tibet, a disappointing film that is one part travelogue and one part disorganized montage. It suffers from being too personally involved and also from being impersonal in tone and structure. According to the filmmaker it would suggest a movement to save Tibet, acknowledging that the popular movement to free it has passed, but it is unsuccessful at communicating anything progressive. There is a relative hopelessness about it, and it unfortunately does a bit of disservice to the land and its people.

By titling his documentary about the life of Tibetan Buddhist monk Gendun Choephel Angry Monk, director Luc Schaedler sets out to deliberately set a tone for the contradiction inherent in his film. One does not, after all, normally think of a monk, especially a Buddhist monk, as "angry". There is another layer of contradiction in this film as well, though. Schaedler is critical of what he calls "conservative" Tibetan culture - those members of the Tibetan community who struggled to maintain the traditions of Tibet and who resisted the influence of outside influences on their society. In his film, however, Schaedler paints a narrow and one-sided view of both Choephel and Tibetan culture.

Choephel, born in 1903, was believed to be a reincarnation of a Buddhist lama. In his narrative, Schaedler provides this information almost dismissively, but the belief in reincarnations of lamas is an integral part of Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan culture. The Dalai Lama living today, for example, is the Fourteenth incarnation of the Dalai Lama, and was identified as such at the age of two through a series of tests to determine his authenticity. As a Westerner, Schaedler doesn't have to hold the same beliefs as Tibetan Buddhists, of course, but as a filmmaker documenting and criticizing a culture he has studied, he says in the director's notes, since 1988, one might expect him to not be quite so blase about a belief that is an integral part of that culture. Choephel was sent, as many Tibetan boys were and still are, to a monastery at the age of four, to begin his training as a monk. Choephel was a bright student who questioned everything, and as he grew older he came to question more and more whether Tibetan culture was stagnating because of the refusal of the Tibetan government, largely controlled at that time by the monasteries, to learn about and integrate knowledge from other cultures.