Relaxing Music: Dalai Lama Releases Debut Album

The spiritual leader of Tibet, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, has released a song from his debut music album Inner World.

According to The Rolling Stone, the album was released on July 6, 2020, to mark the Dalai Lama’s 85th birthday.

Inner World features 11 tracks combining traditional Buddhist mantras chanted by the Dalai Lama with spoken reflections on wisdom, courage, and healing.

The album was created in collaboration with New Zealand musicians Junelle and Abraham Kunin. The couple had long proposed a project combining the Dalai Lama’s teachings with calming music to help ease modern stress. The production took five years.

“Music can help people in ways that words alone cannot. It can bring us back to our true nature and kind heart,” the Dalai Lama shared through the Kunins.

One track, “Compassion,” featuring the famous mantra Om Mani Padme Hum, is available now on his official YouTube channel.

All proceeds from the album will go toward global education initiatives: the Mind & Life Institute and the Social, Emotional and Ethical Learning program developed with Emory University.

Tracklist – Inner World:

1. The Buddha

2. One Of My Favourite Prayers

3. Compassion

4. Courage

5. Ama La

6. Healing

7. Wisdom

8. Purification

9. Protection

10. Children

11. Humanity