Tenzin Choegyal & Philip Glass – "Snowy Mountains – GangRi

Tenzin Choegyal & Philip Glass – "Snowy Mountains – GangRi" Film by Tenzin Tsewang From the forthcoming album Be the Sky Philip Glass and Tibetan-Australian artist Tenzin Choegyal present “Snowy Mountains – GangRi” (གངས་རི་རྭ་བས།) — the first single from their upcoming collaborative album Be the Sky. This original composition blends contemporary classical minimalism with Tibetan spiritual poetry, offering a powerful meditation on devotion, resilience, and inner strength. Sung by Tenzin Choegyal along with over 100 Tibetan refugee children from the Tibetan Children’s Village — the school and orphanage in Dharamshala where Tenzin was raised — the piece sets to music a revered Tibetan verse dedicated to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama: In the land encircled by snowy mountains, Is the source of all happiness and benefit, All-compassionate Tenzin Gyatso, Ocean of Wisdom, May you stand firm until samsara ends. གངས་རི་རྭ་བས་བསྐོར་བའི་ཞིང་ཁམས་སུ། ཕན་དང་བདེ་བ་མ་ལུས་འབྱུང་བའི་གནས། སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་དབང་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྒྱ་མཚོ། ཞབས་པད་བསལ་བརྒྱའི་བར་དུ་བརྟན་གྱུར་ཅིག།། Featuring Alex Ring Gray on piano and the Grammy-winning Scorchio Quartet, the track builds a richly layered, emotionally resonant soundscape — a fusion of Glass’s unmistakable musical language with Tenzin’s evocative vocal style. “This song is our humble offering in honour of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday,” says Tenzin Choegyal. Premiered at Carnegie Hall during the 38th Annual Tibet House Benefit Concert, “Snowy Mountains – GangRi” was also performed by a choir of Tibetan children from Jackson Heights, Queens. 🎨 Cover art by Tenzing Rigdol, from his Biography of a Thought series, previously exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Design by Jamyang Tenzin 🎼 the album - "Be the Sky" will come out in early November 2025 on vinyl and all digital platforms. Produced by Tenzin Choegyal & Alex Ring Gray with support from The Tibet Fund, Sea Stone Foundation, Green Dragons Fund, Orange Mountain Music, and many generous friends and family. 🔔 Subscribe for more music and updates📲 Stream https://linktr.ee/orangemountainmusic #PhilipGlass #TenzinChoegyal #SnowyMountains #GangRi #BeTheSky #TibetanMusic #ContemporaryClassical #DalaiLama #TibetHouseBenefit