Return to Gandhi Road tells the powerful story of Kangyur Rinpoche, a renowned Tibetan Master. Heeding the imminent danger of the 1950’s Cultural Revolution, and under the instructions of the Dalai Lama, Rinpoche braved the dangerous journey over the Himalayan mountains to India where he rescued two tons of Buddhist texts that otherwise faced potential extinction. The journey took over three years, was undertaken on foot accompanied by his young family, and involved immense physical hardship. Once in Darjeeling he built Orgyen Kunsang Chokhorling, a Monastery at 54 Gandhi Road. It was at this address that a handful of single-minded Westerners, in search of a more meaningful life, began to arrive in the late 1960’s. Their meeting, although brief with Rinpoche’s passing in 1975, eventually had an extraordinary widespread effect and directly contributed to Buddhism’s spread throughout the Western world. Told through the eyes of New Zealander Kim Hegan, who was one of those first Westerners, more than 40 years after Rinpoche’s passing and his Buddhist practice abandoned, Return toGandhi Road re-traces the journey he made to Darjeeling 46 years ago, to tell Rinpoche’s profound story, while healing the trauma that kept him away for so long.