The 17th Gyalwa Karmapa is widely seen as a likely successor to the role of Tibetan Buddhist leader in the event of the retirement or death of the 14th Dalai Lama. Bodhissatva interweaves footage shot on his historic t...展开our of the US, with background footage of his childhood in Tibet, sequences in Dharamsala, India, and rare archival footage of the previous, Sixteenth, Karmapa.