Loten Namling
Loten Namling is an Indian-born Tibetan singer, musical artist, entertainer and cartoonist currently living in Switzerland. He is working on his project, "Blues", in which he explores paths linking the songs to culture. The 14th Dalai Lama once called Loten "a singer with a voice." Based in Switzerland, the artist has travelled worldwide with his lute, singing the songs of the 2nd Dalai Lama, as well as other traditional songs, and his own songs.
Loten Namling
Wolfgang H. Wögerer · Wolfgang H. Wögerer, Vienna, Austria · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Born
- 1963
- Birthplace
- Dharamsala, (India)
- Nationality
- Switzerland
- Occupation
- singer · musician
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Loten Namling is an Indian-born Tibetan singer, musical artist, entertainer and cartoonist currently living in Switzerland. He is working on his project, "Blues", in which he explores paths linking the songs to culture. The 14th Dalai Lama once called Loten "a singer with a voice." Based in Switzerland, the artist has travelled worldwide with his lute, singing the songs of the 2nd Dalai Lama, as well as other traditional songs, and his own songs.
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Loten Namling (born 1963) is a Swiss musician and singer. The musician was born in Dharamshala.
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From Kalmykia to Korea to Wales, Namling has performed worldwide, telling stories about his life, connecting songs of the past to the reality of the present, and inviting his audience on a journey through the landscape of spirituality.
![Loten Namling executing final ceremony of 'Europe for Tibet Solidarity Rally'. -- This ceremony consists in pronouncing some Tibetan wellwhishing words whilst throwing en:tsampa (roasted barley flour) in the air -- done by most of the audience. -- Nice funny for all-the-audience, but terrifying DSLRs) [w.]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Vienna_2012-05-26_-_Europe_for_Tibet_Solidarity_Rally_342_Loten_Namling_-_Final_Ceremony.jpg/800px-Vienna_2012-05-26_-_Europe_for_Tibet_Solidarity_Rally_342_Loten_Namling_-_Final_Ceremony.jpg)
Loten Namling executing final ceremony of 'Europe for Tibet Solidarity Rally'. -- This ceremony consists in pronouncing some Tibetan wellwhishing words whilst throwing en:tsampa (roasted barley flour) in the air -- done by most of the audience. -- Nice funny for all-the-audience, but terrifying DSLRs) [w.]
Wolfgang H. Wögerer · Wolfgang H. Wögerer, Vienna, Austria
Tibetan musician Loten Namling
Wolfgang H. Wögerer · Wolfgang H. Wögerer, Vienna, Austria
Key facts
Key facts
• Born — 1963 • Birthplace — Dharamsala, (India) • Illustration — Loten Namling • Illustration —...performing a well-wishing ceremony, 2012-05-26.
Early life
Early life
Namling was born in India of Tibetan refugee parents.
Activism
Activism
On 13 May 2013, Namling started what he called A Journey for Freedom – One Man, One Path. He walked from the Swiss capital of Bern to Geneva, dragging a black coffin around to attract attention. Arriving on 8 July, he performed with some 13 more musicians, amongst them renowned Swiss band The Young Gods whose singer Franz Treichler had strongly supported the artist's action and had organized the performance on Place des Nations, in front of Geneva UN headquarters. It inspired Tibetan Warrior, a documentary film directed by Dodo Hunziker and produced by Urs Schnell, about the quest of Loten Namling from Europe to India where he met with politicians, experts and young radicalists before requesting the Dalai Lama his advice. In October 2013, Namling was given the Free Spirit Award in McLeod Ganj for this "Journey of freedom" march. On November 11, 2025, Namling arrived in Prague at the invitation of the Association Czechs Support Tibet and performed at the "Dalai Lama 90 & Havel 89" celebration of the 90th birthday of the 14th Dalai Lama and the unexpired 89th birthday of Czech President Václav Havel. Richard Gere supported the organizers of the evening and thanked for Tibet to the President of the Czech Republic, Petr Pavel.
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Identity and overview
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Works and production
The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. It is also recorded that loten Namling is recorded with the occupation singer. Recorded with the occupation musician. Recorded as a citizen of Switzerland. It is also recorded that loten Namling is recorded with the gender male. Born on 1 January 1963.
Discography
• Songs of Narcissism (1999) • Black Crane (2001)
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- MusicBrainz artist record for Loten Namling
Scholarly · MetaBrainz Foundation
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q124724: Loten Namling
Scholarly · Wikimedia Foundation
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- “Loten Namling”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- 1.Staff. Loten Namling: Profile. loten.ch.
- 2.In Conversation with Loten Namling. Phayul. 2013-11-08.
- 3.Tibetan singer to carry out a coffin march from Bern to Geneva - www.phayul.com. www.phayul.com.
- 4.YouTube.
- 5.Synopsis – TIBETAN WARRIOR – the true story of one man's fight for freedom.
- 6..hu. Loten Namling honored with Free Spirit Award 2013/ENG. 26 October 2013.
- 7.video online
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MusicBrainz artist record for Loten NamlingMetaBrainz Foundation
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q124724: Loten NamlingWikimedia Foundation
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