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Happiness: Sneaking Off to Do Archery
In this scene from the Independent Lens documentary Happiness, 9-year-old monk Peyangki shoots arrows with some friends at an archery range, and then tells him how archery is actually banned at the monastery. He seems to long for a more “normal” way of life.
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