TASHI AND THE MONK
HBO, 8:00 p.m. ET
This documentary has a title that makes it sound like a Seventies TV cop show, but it’s actually a dual character study: of Buddhist monk Lobsang Phuntsok, who established a protected environment for orphaned Himalayan children, and five-year-old Tashi, one of his newest, and most rebellious and challenging, young charges. Phuntsok’s patience and perspective are positively saintly – or, at the very least, monkly.