Alexandra David-Néel

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On February 28, 1924, a French woman, Alexandra David-Néel, entered Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, a city previously forbidden to foreigners. Having set off thirteen years earlier from southern India, and after years of wandering that took her from the little-known Himalayan regions to the vast, unexplored Tibetan plains, Alexandra David-Néel, accompanied by a young lama who would become her adopted son, crossed the vast Asian continent to reach her goal: to discover the roof of the world. "But it's not the destination that counts," the tireless explorer tells us, "but the journey." And for Alexandra David-Néel, this journey was a spiritual one. It was the path of Buddhism that she followed as a pioneer, and whose surprising adventures she recounts to us, day after day. The great actress Dominique Blanc portrays Alexandra David-Néel.