World Peace in World Music: Compassion, Wisdom, & Health
With Ani Choying Drolma and Menpa Phuntsog Wangmo

in this week Shang Shung School of Tibetan Medicine Webinar, we welcome the celebrated Nepalese musician and humanitarian Ani Choying Drolma. We will discuss with Ani Drolma her work to share the Buddhist wisdom of compassion, through the performance of traditional Buddhist mantra and ritual music. Our ongoing Host, Menpa Phuntsog Wangmo shares the Tibetan Medicine perspective how activities like chanting and singing can help us balance our wind element Loong energies, and promote our health in daily life. In this webinar, we will explore the power of music and mantra to inspire compassion, wisdom and health for ourselves, our local and global communities. Ani Choying Drolma will share a sacred mantra melody with us, and we will all join in a few moments of blissful meditation together.

Ani Choying Drolma

Ani Choying Drolma is an internationally-celebrated vocalist, and a prolific humanitarian. She performs around the world at many venues, and has recorded several albums. Her music was instrumental in presenting Himalayan Buddhist ritual chanting to the western world. She is now an acclaimed performer in the world music scene. Her voice is likened to a beam of light that cuts through the darkness, filled with compassion, purity, and healing power.

Her many humanitarian efforts support and develop schools, orphanages, educational programs, drinking water facilities, disaster aid, and other services for various rural villages and communities in Nepal. Ani Choying Drolma is the founder of the Nun’s Welfare Program (1998), as well as the Arya Tara School (2000) benefitting young girls’ educational opportunities. She is the founder of the Aarogya Foundation (2010), providing high-quality, affordable dialysis services for low-income patients.

Ani Choying Drolma has been a Buddhist monastic practitioner since a young age. At the age of 13, she joined the Buddhist nunnery of Nagi Gompa on Shivapuri Mountain in the northern slope of the Kathmandu Valley. Her decision was inspired by her innate connection to the Buddhist Dharma, as well as her strong desire to avoid a traditional arranged marriage. She studied for many years as a devoted student of the famous Buddhist teacher, His Emminence Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche.

Menpa Phuntsog Wangmo

Menpa Phuntsog Wangmo is a practitioner of Traditional Tibetan Medicine, with over 30 years of experience in clinical practice as well as teaching. She received her advanced degree from the Lhasa University School of Traditional Medicine
Menpa Wangmo is the Director of the Shang Shung Institute School of Tibetan Medicine. She teaches Tibetan Medicine around the world, developing programs and teaching students in the USA, Spain, Italy, Russia, and many places.
Menpa Phuntsog Wangmo is the Co-Founder of the American Tibetan Medical Association, ATMA, Tibetan Medicine professional organization.

Moderator

Adam Okerblom, DAOM
Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, Practitioner and Teacher of Tibetan Medicine

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