One of very few African-American Buddhist teachers in the United States, Lama Choyin Rangdrol makes a redemptive pilgrimage to the famous Buddhist temples of Angkor, buried in the heart of the Cambodian jungle. Festival Canceled revisits the violence and unrest surrounding the American civil rights and anti-war movements. From the black men on the front lines in Vietnam to the rise of urban gangs and the FBI-sanctioned war against them.
—Lama Choyin angdrol