Inner peace 2 ani choying drolma biography
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Ani Choying Drolma
Musical artist
Ani Choying Drolma (born 4 June 1972), also known as Choying Dolma and Ani Choying (Ani, "nun", is an honorific), is a Nepalese Buddhist nun of Tibetan origin and musician from the Nagi Gompa nunnery in Nepal.
Inner peace 2 ani choying drolma biography
She is known in Nepal and throughout the world for bringing many Tibetan Buddhist chants and feast songs to mainstream audiences. She is the UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador to Nepal since 2014.[1]
Early life
Ani Choying was born on 4 June 1971, in Kathmandu, Nepal, to Tibetan exiles.
She entered monastic life as a means of escape from her physically abusive father, and she was accepted into the Nagi Gompa nunnery at the age of 13.[2] For a number of years, the monastery's resident chant master (who was trained directly by the wife of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche) taught Ani Choying the music that she is famous for performing.
Musical career
In 1994, guitarist Steve Tibbetts visited the nunnery and eventually record