A Critical Socio-Cultural Analysis of Bernardo Bertolucci’s Film ‘Little Buddha’ with The Perceptual Lens of Psychoanalytic Study

Bernardo Bertolucci, one of the greatest masters filmmakers of Italian and World Cinema, a revolutionary auteur, artist made his epic venture in the discourse of Buddhism through his cult classic cinematic journey of "Little Buddha" .Here, as an Artist he tried to introspect the deeper intonation of Buddha' 'middle way path' in the realm of the attainment of Nirvana at the course of myriad surmountable events of human suffering.This stunningly remarkable film with its historically significant visuals and scenes on teaching saga about Tibetian Buddhism and substances of its reincarnation (Specially the superior Lama), nature, soul, energies, spirits along with the juxtaposition of Buddha's life.This article paper will elaborately analyze some of the critical cruxes of the film as review in the realm of Psychoanalytic Purview and try to explore some lights in regard of Buddha's philosophy and Tibetian Buddhists' sect' belief.