Nawang Khechog

Nawang Khechog was born in Tibet. After the Chinese invasion his family moved to India, where he studied meditation and Buddhist philosophy and spent eleven years as a monk — four of them as a hermit meditating in the Himalayan foothills, under the guidance of the Dalai Lama.

He is self-taught as a musician, and the flute is what he plays. His compositions are written to hold contemplation rather than to fill it: long lines, a great deal of air, and often the chant for universal compassion beneath them.

Over twenty-five years of recording he has become the best-known voice of Tibetan meditation music outside Tibet, and the first Tibetan to be nominated for a Grammy.