Game of Shadows Documentary
A small, wind-swept island in Atlantic Canada, desperate for investment.
The arrival of a Buddhist organization controlled by secretive Chinese nationals with hundreds of millions of dollars.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbuqyAZTFCM
What could possibly go wrong?
In 2007, Prince Edward Island—Canada’s smallest province—welcomed a Taiwanese Buddhist group seeking a safe haven for its form of Tibetan Buddhism. Eighteen years later, the organization known as Bliss & Wisdom has bitterly divided the island. Massive monasteries rise from rural farmland; no one can say how much land the group controls.
Local leaders remain unusually quiet. The Canadian Government is uninterested
Islanders are asking: What’s the endgame?
Game of Shadows follows three investigators: a book publisher, a former RCMP money-laundering specialist, and the former head of Canadian intelligence’s Asia bureau.
What begins as local concern escalates as they follow the money: offshore structures, vast property holdings, and a charismatic, enigmatic leader—Mary Jin—a mainland Chinese spiritual authority with no formal monastic training, little time in Taiwan, and no known meeting with the Dalai Lama.
Some Tibetan figures raise quiet alarms—not just about Mary Jin’s legitimacy, but about the transfer of sacred scrolls to PEI, where Bliss & Wisdom monks are translating them into Mandarin.
From Charlottetown to Taipei, the team uncovers ties to over 200 global entities and over $500 million in assets—just on PEI. In Taipei, few will talk, but the trail leads to a broader $11-billion Chinese money-laundering network linked to Taiwanese Buddhist groups.
Is this a spiritual movement—or a covert effort by the Chinese Communist Party to control Buddhism for its own ends?
Could the CCP’s religious expansion be a smokescreen for deeper geopolitical interests?
A small, wind-swept island in Atlantic Canada, desperate for investment.
The arrival of a Buddhist organization controlled by secretive Chinese nationals with hundreds of millions of dollars.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbuqyAZTFCM
What could possibly go wrong?
In 2007, Prince Edward Island—Canada’s smallest province—welcomed a Taiwanese Buddhist group seeking a safe haven for its form of Tibetan Buddhism. Eighteen years later, the organization known as Bliss & Wisdom has bitterly divided the island. Massive monasteries rise from rural farmland; no one can say how much land the group controls.
Local leaders remain unusually quiet. The Canadian Government is uninterested
Islanders are asking: What’s the endgame?
Game of Shadows follows three investigators: a book publisher, a former RCMP money-laundering specialist, and the former head of Canadian intelligence’s Asia bureau.
What begins as local concern escalates as they follow the money: offshore structures, vast property holdings, and a charismatic, enigmatic leader—Mary Jin—a mainland Chinese spiritual authority with no formal monastic training, little time in Taiwan, and no known meeting with the Dalai Lama.
Some Tibetan figures raise quiet alarms—not just about Mary Jin’s legitimacy, but about the transfer of sacred scrolls to PEI, where Bliss & Wisdom monks are translating them into Mandarin.
From Charlottetown to Taipei, the team uncovers ties to over 200 global entities and over $500 million in assets—just on PEI. In Taipei, few will talk, but the trail leads to a broader $11-billion Chinese money-laundering network linked to Taiwanese Buddhist groups.
Is this a spiritual movement—or a covert effort by the Chinese Communist Party to control Buddhism for its own ends?
Could the CCP’s religious expansion be a smokescreen for deeper geopolitical interests?
A small, wind-swept island in Atlantic Canada, desperate for investment.
The arrival of a Buddhist organization controlled by secretive Chinese nationals with hundreds of millions of dollars.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbuqyAZTFCM
What could possibly go wrong?
In 2007, Prince Edward Island—Canada’s smallest province—welcomed a Taiwanese Buddhist group seeking a safe haven for its form of Tibetan Buddhism. Eighteen years later, the organization known as Bliss & Wisdom has bitterly divided the island. Massive monasteries rise from rural farmland; no one can say how much land the group controls.
Local leaders remain unusually quiet. The Canadian Government is uninterested
Islanders are asking: What’s the endgame?
Game of Shadows follows three investigators: a book publisher, a former RCMP money-laundering specialist, and the former head of Canadian intelligence’s Asia bureau.
What begins as local concern escalates as they follow the money: offshore structures, vast property holdings, and a charismatic, enigmatic leader—Mary Jin—a mainland Chinese spiritual authority with no formal monastic training, little time in Taiwan, and no known meeting with the Dalai Lama.
Some Tibetan figures raise quiet alarms—not just about Mary Jin’s legitimacy, but about the transfer of sacred scrolls to PEI, where Bliss & Wisdom monks are translating them into Mandarin.
From Charlottetown to Taipei, the team uncovers ties to over 200 global entities and over $500 million in assets—just on PEI. In Taipei, few will talk, but the trail leads to a broader $11-billion Chinese money-laundering network linked to Taiwanese Buddhist groups.
Is this a spiritual movement—or a covert effort by the Chinese Communist Party to control Buddhism for its own ends?
Could the CCP’s religious expansion be a smokescreen for deeper geopolitical interests?