Blessings: The Tsoknyi Nangchen Nuns of Tibet

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In the summer of 2005, renowned Buddhist teacher, Tsoknyi Rinpoche III, accompanied by a handful of western students, traveled to the Nangchen region in Eastern Tibet. The purpose of the trip was to meet the Tsoknyi Nangchen Nuns - 3000 remarkable women who live and practice an ancient yogic tradition in nunneries and hermitages scattered across this remote, mountainous region.

Ani Choying Drolma (Ani-la)

Ani Choying Drolma is an internationally reputed singer. Having been educated in a Buddhist nunnery, Ani studied Buddhist meditation, chants, rituals and ceremonies and was soon advanced to chanting master. Ani recently performed on MTV's Coke Studio for a composition by A.R. Rahman that is said to put a whole new spin to the term 'world music'. The proceeds from her concerts tours, CD sales and donation goes towards running a school started by her in the year 2000 called Arya Tara School.

Her school is committed to promote the advancement of nuns, not only for their own benefit but also prepares them to serve and benefit others. This desire developed in Ani, upon the passing of her master Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, a renowned meditation master. Watching him hold the nuns in the same regard as monks, Ani believed that creating more opportunities for nuns to study and to develop their own capacities for skillful and compassionate action is the best way she can dedicate herself to her teacher's vision throughout her life.

Ani Choying Drolma - CHÖ - Munich 08
Ani Choying Drolma is a great singer from Nepal. She knows the art of singinging and chanting mantras in an authentic and heart opening way.
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Ani Choying Drolma - CHÖ - Munich 08 - 4:49
Ani Choying Drolma (Ani-La) - ritual mantra from the Chö ceremony [HD] Music Show, ABC RN
Ani Choying Drolma (Ani-La) is a Nepalese nun in the Vajrayana Buddhist tradition. Here she chants a ritual mantra that is part of the Chö ceremony, a tantric practice of Vajrayana Buddhism in which obstacles to enlightenment are cut free by means of intense forms of visualisation and meditation. Ani-La's religious songs aim to express that meditative state as a way to achieve realisation or enlightenment. Her debut album Chö features settings of these ritual chants to invoke Buddhist deities but these are not external beings so much as positive qualities that Buddhists seek to bring to their own minds through meditation. In this video she is using two ritual tantric instruments: the bell known as drilbu and the double-sided drum, damaru.'
Ani Choying Drolma - ritual mantra from the Chö ceremony 3:12
Ani Choying Drolma - A Taste of Inner Peace
Buddhist chanting master and humanitarian Ani Choying Drolma mesmerises with this powerful invocation.
Ani Choying Drolma - A taste of inner peace - 4:27
Ani Choying Drolma - 十一面觀音根本咒(藏傳大悲咒)
Namo Ratna Trayaya, Namo Arya Jvana Sagara, Vairochana, Byuhara Jaya Tathagataya. Arahate, Samyaksam Buddhaya. Namo Sarwa Tathagate Bhyay, Arahata Bhyah, Samyaksam Buddhe Bhyah. Namo Arya Avalokite, Shoraya Bodhisattvaya, Maha Sattvaya, Maha Karunikaya, Tadyata, Om Dara Dara, Diri Diri, Duru Duru, Itte We, Te Chale Chale, Prachale Prachale, Kusume, Kusuma Wa Re, Ili Milli. Chiti Jvala Mapanaye Shoha.
Ani Choying Drolma - 十一面觀音根本咒(藏傳大悲咒) 4:23
Ven. Khen Rinpoche Pema Chophel (Pema Rinpoche)
Avalokiteshvara's Ten Prayers - Khenpo Pema Choephel Rinpoche
Avalokiteshvara's Ten Prayers - Khenpo Pema Choephel Rinpoche - 12:45
Khenpo Pema Chopel Rinpoche - The Mantra of Guru Rinpoche
Khenpo Pema Chopel Rinpoche - The Mantra of Guru Rinpoche 7:13 (Sorry the last 2 seconds are cut off)
Lama Khyenno 'Calling the Guru from Afar' by Khenpo Pema Choephel
Lama Khyenno 'Calling the Guru from Afar' by Khenpo Pema Choephel 1:12
"Guru, think of me, kind Root Guru, think of me..." A supplication to pierce your heart with devotion: "The key point for invoking the Guru's Blessings is devotion, inspired by disenchantment and renunciation. Not as mere platitude, but from the core of your heart, with the confidence that your own Guru is none other than the Awakened One." (as said by Lodrö Thaye - Rangjung Yeshe Translations & Publications)