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Rehearsing for our recording session this weekend for White Lama.

Metok my dranyen happily hanging on Carnegie Hall proudly showing off it’s FREE TIBET and Pathway to Paris stickers. @pathway2paris #freetibet #pathwaytoparis

Tibet House US 32nd Annual Benefit concert, last night at Carnegie Hall. Thanks to all who made it such a huge success

For you all beings who have supported my music and my little journey

For your listening pleasure - a song from my album "Heart Strings". I am constantly inspired by the 6th Dalai Lama's poems. To pay homage to his work I wrote this simple nomad song with Strings arranged by Katherine Philp.

"White crane!
Lend me your wings
I will not fly far
From Lithang, I shall return"

In the meantime, you can purchase the whole album from this link https://tenzinchoegyal.bandcamp.com/album/heart-strings

Tsangyang Gyatso (whose name means 'Ocean of Melodious Songs'), the Sixth Dalai Lama of Tibet, wrote this short poem when he was being forcibly taken away to China by the Mongol soldiers of Qosot Khan (1706) - away from his land and people. No one understood the hidden meaning of the song. But when that very year the sad and shocking news of the 'disappearance' or more probably the 'murder' of Tsangyang Gyatso at Gunga-Nor lake spread across Tibet, the secret meaning of last of his many songs dawned on Tibetan masses who dearly longed for his presence during a turbulent turn of history, and anxiously looked towards Lithang for the next incarnation.

***I love the final part where it feels like everyone is starting to spread their wing to take the flight. ... See more