Some have become practicing Buddhists while others lose interest after a couple of visits. The teaching helps them realise that loss is nothing to fear because it is a part of the process, he said. Younger generations of immigrants who gave up their religion are rediscovering Buddhism, coming back to spend their weekends attending services. At Seattle Buddhist Church, a Japanese Buddhist temple, the number attending weekend services has grown from about 250 to more than 300 in the past two years. There is a growing sense of affluence, but you can't see that you are happier than before.
People start to search again.
The temple had a membership of about 600 during the 1930s. Most members are Japanese Americans whose parents or grandparents were immigrants. There were certainly some conversions to other religions. There, lay practitioners, not monks, conduct the teachings. The movie is about the life of Seattle resident Carolyn Massey's son, Sonam Wangdu, now known as Trulku-la, who was taken to Nepal to study Buddhism at the age of 4.