Loten Namling

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Loten Namling leads a Tibetan congratulatory ceremony; Vienna 2012.

Solders Namling ( Tibetan བློ་ བརྟན་ རྣམ་ གླིང་ ་. Wylie blo brtan rnam gling ; * 1963 in Dharamsala ) is a known exiled Tibetan and musician.

Living in Switzerland since 1989, he has performed all over the world - with Milarepa's chants and his own pieces, which range between folk songs from his homeland and the blues, combining tradition and modernity. Loten Namling plays the Tibetan dran-nye , a lute . In addition, he uses the traditional “conch horn” and singing bowls , he tells stories from his life and is committed to the Free Tibet movement and to Save Tibet .

On January 27, 2009, Loten Namling protested in Bern against the visit of Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabaos on the occasion of the World Economic Forum in Davos and was temporarily arrested.

On May 16, 2012, the activist started a walk from Bern to Geneva (with interruptions) in order to make the public as well as the UN and the Swiss government aware of the injustice in Tibet and the slow genocide , to talk to passers-by, to appear occasionally and most recently to take part in a larger concert in front of the UN building on the Place des Nations . Loten referred to this as Journey To Freedom - One Man, One Path, Free Tibet. . He performed prostrations every 35 minutes, a practice of Buddhist pilgrims. With this “march”, Namling remembered the 35 Tibetans who at that time had burned themselves to death in desperation.

The artist carried a black coffin with the inscription "Tibet" on it, containing his lute, clothes, provisions and a tent.

The open-air concert, co-organized by Franz Treichler , singer of the Swiss band The Young Gods , took place shortly after Namling's arrival on July 8, 2012.

Discography

  • Songs of Tibet (1999)
  • White Crane (2001)

Remarks

  1. ^ Tibetan protest Wen Jiabao in Berne. (No longer available online.) In: phayul.com. January 28, 2009, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on August 27, 2020 (English).
  2. ^ Tibetan singer to carry out a coffin march from Bern to Geneva. In: phayul.com. May 16, 2012, accessed January 8, 2019 . phayul.com (English; arrival in Geneva and “provisional end” on July 8th); suedostschweiz.ch (German)
  3. ↑ Geneva, July 8, 2012 (YouTube)

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Commons : Loten Namling  - collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Namling, solder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tibetan singer and musician, in exile in Switzerland
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Dharamsala