Old Dog | Pema Tseden's Best Tibetan Mastiff Movie

Old Dog (Chinese: 老狗) is a 2011 Tibetan feature film written and directed by Pema Tseden, and starring Yanbum Gyal, Drolma Kyab, Lochey Lochey, Tamdrin Tso. Old Dog picks up the story of a father and son against the backdrop of China's escalating trade in Tibetan mastiffs.
Written by: Pema Tseden
Starring: Yanbum Gyal; Drolma Kyab; Lochey ...
Cinematography: Sonthar Gyal

[@weirdaustin757]

I'm here supporting my fellow Tibetan. Great video.

[@ashangstudio1790]

Much appreciated

[@Chungthak]

i love that father's loyalty to his dog. Money is not important. money can't guard their home,

[@tashidolma6668]

The dog is the spirit and dignity of the Tibetan,loosing dignity is worse than death 😢😢

[@rolexomega8888]

poor DOg

[@taidelek9994]

May he reborn Swiftly 💐 Katre che for such deep and touching memories you have left.

[@kargocult]

Can't we have more time given to ads? The movie keeps interrupting the ads.

[@tenzinlodoe3167]

rest in power pema tseden la!
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Did he do what he did to the dog due to how their family is constantly harassed by robbers and buyers (high demand of the mastiff from city dwellers) and that pressure was too much to bear? Also succumbing to sell the dog would be a disrespect to the bond old man has shared with the dog since raising it over 15 years? Could he have sold the dog for 20,000 yuan and helped pay for the son's hospital visit instead? This seems like a tragedy nonetheless.

[@dolkartso2738]

I don't know the exact motive behind but what I notice from this movie is how strongly the old man wants to keep Tibetan culture as it is. He doesn't even accept Chinese cigarettes even though Tibetan cigarettes are harder to light. He also mentioned how dogs are useful to nominate where it is just a pet for city people. It's like taking someone’s identity or meaning of existence even that dog might get better food and a better place to live. For the old man, that dog values more than any money. I have seen the struggle and sacrifices it takes to keep Tibetan culture and individuality in this distinctive world and especially under Chinese influence. That is not hard-headed rather it is a real patriotic person. I admire my ancestors for standing strong and we should do the same by choosing right over easy, culture over comfort, and your country over money.

[@tenzinlodoe3167]

​@@dolkartso2738Good points! Yea, the grandpa definitely had his reasons on refusing money and cigarettes even scolding that young man whose father used to tend after these nomadic dogs. I heard and read some more theories on why the old man did what he did and one person from the same Amdo region said possibly some older generation of Tibetan may have had less exposure to Buddhism and 'nyingje' back then and so all the inconveniences caused by the dog's presence, granted it was caused by greed from outside forces made him do what he did in the end- just a theory though. :) bho gyalo

[@yubook3338]

༡།པཎ་ཆེན་སྐུ་ཕྲེང་བཅུ་པ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་མཚན།༡༩༨༩ལོ།
༼རྒྱ་དམར་གཞུང་གི་ཐོན་རྫས།སྙིང་ནད།༽
༢།ཁྲི་ཆེན་གུང་ཐང་རིན་པོ་ཆེ།༢༠༠༠ལོ།
༼རྒྱ་དམར་གཞུང་གི་ཐོན་རྫས།དུག་ཁབ།༽
༣།མཁན་ཆེན་འཇིགས་མེད་ཕུན་ཚོགས།༢༠༠༤ལོ།
༼རྒྱ་དམར་གཞུང་གི་ཐོན་རྫས།སྙིང་ནད།༽
༤།དགེ་བཤེས་འཇམ་དཔལ་བློ་ཤེེས། ༢༠༢༠
༼རྒྱ་དམར་གཞུང་གི་ཐོན་རྫས།སྙིང་ནད།༽
༥།དབྱངས་དགའ། ༢༠༢༢
༼རྒྱ་དམར་གཞུང་གི་ཐོན་རྫས།སྙིང་ནད།༽
༦།པད་མ་ཚེ་བརྟན།༢༠༢༣ལོ།
༼རྒྱ་དམར་གཞུང་གི་ཐོན་རྫས།སྙིང་ནད།༽

[@lamwilshangdhi612]

​@@dolkartso2738 - By Killing your own dog, is that Tibetan Culture?

[@dolkartso2738]

@@lamwilshangdhi612 no, absolutely not.

[@Bodhisattva13]

Do you have the legal rights to upload this movie?

[@yubook3338]

第5: 著名學者，醫師陽嘎突然去世(中國產品”心臟病”).2022年.
第6: 著名電影導演，作家萬瑪才旦突然去世(中國產品”心臟病”).2023年.

[@snowmonster.7655]

Poor dog is better word for ཁྱི་རྒན།

[@Naturehood3_8]

What is this dialect?

[@Bzdm0]

@@Naturehood3_8 Amdo

[@Bzdm0]

Wouldn’t elder be a better translation for རྒན་།? To me, elder dog sounds like a better translation

[@dolkartso2738]

@@Bzdm0 རྒན། I think he uses old because that did elder of course but an old dog. A fun fact about naming dogs in Tibet, especially in the nominated area, they usually don't name dogs with a human name rather they name them by their color, appearance, and so on. RIP Pema Tsetan

[@Bzdm0]

@@dolkartso2738 Yeah, old dog also make sense. However, the original commenter suggested “poor dog” as a translation which threw me off since རྒན་། doesn’t mean poor.