Little Buddha is a special spiritual film about a group of Buddhist monks, led by Lama Norbu (Ruocheng Ying), who look for the child in which his great Buddhist teacher Lama Dorje (Geshe Tsultim Gyeltsen) was reincarnated. Lama Norbu and his fellow monks believe they have found a candidate to reincarnate Dorje in the person of a boy named Jesse Conrad (Alex Wiesendanger) in Seattle. The story is much more complex, Lama Norbu refers in parallel to the story