Ani Choying Drolma

Ani Choying Drolma (Tibetan: a ni chos dbyings sgrol ma; born June 4, 1971 in Kathmandu, also: Choying Drolma, Choying, Ani, " nun " is an honorific ) is a Nepalese nun and singer.

Life

Choying Drolma was as a child by Tibetan exiles in Kathmandu, Nepal, was born. She entered with 13 years in the Buddhist monastery Nagi Gompa, where she was taught 12 years in the religious disciplines, including the Chanting heard. After that she was from 1985 until his death in 1996 personal assistant to Lama Urgyen Trülku. After his death, the jazz musician Steve Tibbetts took in a convent on her singing and put it to music. So she began her career as a singer and used the proceeds from performances and sales of CDs and books, to establish the foundation Nuns Welfare Foundation in 1998. Opened in 2000, the Arya Tara School, which was supplemented by the thangka painting school in 2007, the only school in the traditional Tibetan style of painting is mediated by nuns. They also participates in conferences on women and Buddhism since 2000.

In her home country Nepal is a media star, who not only led the Nepalese hit parade, but has made ​​it to the U.S. charts. She speaks Nepali, Tibetan, Hindi, English and German.

Services

Since 1998 she traveled through North America and Europe in 2005 with Steve Tibbetts (guitar) and Marc Anderson (drums). She has recorded several CDs and written a biography. In 2008, she made ​​during the visit of the Dalai Lama in Germany for the musical setting.

Works

  • Cho, Steve Tibbetts, 1997
  • Dancing Dakini, with Sina felt, 2000
  • Moments of Bliss, 2004
  • Selwa, with Steve Tibbetts, 2004
  • Smile, 2005
  • Inner Peace, 2006
  • Inner Peace 2, 2010
  • I sing for freedom. Übers Eliane Hagedorn and Bettina Runge, Del Rey, Munich, 2009, 256 pages, ISBN 978-3-7645-0319-2 ( Original title: Ma voix pour la liberté, Original Publisher: Oh Editions ).
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