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nawang khechog
tibetan
meditation music
for quiet
mind and peaceful heart
Grammy ® Nominee,
Internationally Renowned Flutist, and Former Monk Offers Tibetan
Meditation Music to the World
Tapping
into the richness of Tibet’s meditation tradition,
Nawang Khechog has created his most relaxing album yet—wholly
focused on helping you experience inner stillness. On Tibetan
Meditation Music, Nawang combines Tibetan spiritual chants
with his own masterful flute compositions.
The result
is a soothing blend that has been embraced by many Tibetan and
Korean monks, nuns, and people around the world from all walks
of life—to
enhance a meditative practice, or just to find a refreshing moment
of pure serenity.
In a unique approach on this recording, Nawang de-emphasizes rhythm
and uses subtle accents of vocals, bells, percussion, and Western classical
instruments to enhance the calming and spacious sound of his meditative
flute and Tibetan spiritual chants. As his most tranquil recording
to date, Tibetan Meditation Music has a timeless quality
that evokes the feeling of sitting on a Himalayan mountain, gazing
into the infinite space with natural freedom and eternal peace.
This is the perfect musical accompaniment for meditation, yoga,
tai’chi,
healing—and complete relaxation.
Includes 24-pages of liner notes with in-depth information about
each song.
Produced by Nawang Khechog
Contents: CD
/ Running time: 64 minutes / M1109D / © π 2007
Nawang Khechog
Artist photos by Bob Winsett / All rights reserved. No part of this
compact disc may be used or reproduced
in any manner without written permission from the artist. Manufactured
in the U.S.A.
Distributed by Sounds True, Inc., PO Box 8010, Boulder, CO 80306-8010
For a free catalog of wisdom teachings for the inner life,
call 800-333-9185 or visit www.soundstrue.com.
1. Under the Wings of Blessing
2. The Great
Prince of Peace and Universal Compassion
3. Five-Peak
Wisdom Mountain
4. A
Daily Prayer and Practice of the Dalai Lama
5. Walking into the Himalaya to Meditate
6. Infinite
Love
7. The Great
Arya Tara
8. Wisdom and
Compassion
9. The Perfection
of Wisdom
10. Dagkar Taso Mila’s
Cave
11. For as
Long as Space Endures
Nawang has
received the blessing transmission for all the Tibetan Chants in this album directly from His Holiness the Dalai Lama
and Khunu Lama Rinpoche, except Ganglo-ma from song #3 and Mila’s song
from song #10.
All songs composed, arranged, and produced by Nawang Khechog. Recorded
at Sounds True Studio by Steve Rush; mixed at Sounds True studio by
Steve Rush and Nawang Khechog, with expert assistance by James Tuttle.
Managing Producer for Sounds True: Steve Rush. Mastered at Airshow
Mastering by David Glasser. Package design by Rachael Tomich. Liner
notes editing by Steve Rush and Mitchell Clute. Front cover photo by
Bob Winsett. Dalai Lama photo by Don Farber. Author photos by Bob Winsett.
Photo of Nobel Laureats taken by Mike Engle. Other photos by Nawang
Khechog.
All songs published
by Tibet Universal Music Publishing (BMI).
All vocals, chants, and instruments performed by Nawang Khechog,
except for female vocals by Tsering Khechog, cello by James Hoskins,
violin by Sandra Wong, oud by Jesse Manno, and synthesizer by Deborah
Schmit-Lobis.
Tami Simon, Chantal Pierrat, Steve Rush, Aron Arnold, Jennifer Coffee,
Rachael Tomich, Nancy Smith, Andrew Young, Beverly Yates, Mitchell
Clute, Grayson Towler, Marcie Vogel Frahm, Karen Polaski, and all the
wonderful people at Sounds True. James Tuttle, Sandra Wong, James Hoskins,
Deborah Schmit-Lobis, Jesse Manno, Randy McIntosh, Bob Winsett, Don
Farber, Tamdin and Tseyang, Ann Blonston, David Glasser, Dawn Engle,
Ivan Suvanjieff, Adam Engle, Mike Engle, Brett Engle, and
my wife, Tsering Y. Khechog.
For the last
twenty years of my musical journey, I have tried my best to create
a contemporary Tibetan spiritual and meditation music. As one
of the poorest followers in the footsteps of His Holiness the
Dalai Lama, I have tried to dedicate my work to three principle
causes:
1. The preservation
of Tibetan culture and the freedom of Tibetan people.
2. The
promotion of the values of love and compassion through my Awakening
Kindness workshops—I
feel these human values are the bedrock of all human spirituality
and creativity.
3. Religious
harmony in the world, through sincere and open-minded exchange
of heartfelt conversations with members of other religious communities.
As His Holiness the Dalai Lama has advised us so many times in
his public addresses, I try to take every opportunity to practice
this in order to gain a deeper understanding of the greater value
of all faiths, which promotes the basic values of love, compassion,
tolerance, a nd forgiveness.
May all be kind to each other!
May Tibet become free and a zone of peace!
May
all religious practitioners appreciate each other’s
good values
and
follow their own paths sincerely!
About Nawang Khechog
Nawang
Khechog fled Tibet in exile when China invaded his homeland in
1959. Nawang has studied meditation and Buddhist philosophy as
a monk in India for eleven years, including four as a hermit meditator.
In an historic
moment, in 2000, he was the first Tibetan to be nominated for
the prestigious Grammy Award. He has toured internationally for
the last twenty years, and has performed live with Philip Glass,
R. Carlos Nakai, Andrea Griminelli (Pavarotti’s
flutist), Laurie Anderson, Kitaro, David Bowie, Peter Kater, Ustad
Sultan Khan, Natalie Merchant, and Trey Anastasio of Phish.
Nawang has
performed over a dozen times at Carnegie Hall for the Tibet House
annual benefit concert, and at the U.N. General Assembly Hall
for the opening of the first Earth Summit. Most recently, he
performed for the opening ceremony of the public address by the
ten leading Nobel Peace Laureates in Denver, Colorado, for the
PeaceJam Foundation’s
tenth anniversary celebration. For more information, go to www.nawangkhechog.com.
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