Recorded in Mirik Monastery (in the northeastern India) with the total collaboration of Bokar Rimpoche - all the pieces were edited by the filmmaker Guy Maezelle

Bokar Rimpoche -

Acknowledged as a Great Master of Tibetan Buddhism, Bokar Rimpoche (1940-2004) devoted his whole life to meditation. Having fled Tibet in 1959, he lived in exile, isolated in a little monastery in the mountains. The spiritual son of Kalou Rimpoché, a close relation of the Dalai Lama and Meditation Master of the 17th Karmapa, Bokar Rimpoche was the heir and representative of an ancestral knowledge (of the Kagyü line) passed along from generation to generation and holding wisdom that still enlightens us today.

These recordings match Guy Maezelle's film Bokar Rimpoche: Maître de méditation and feature sacred chants recorded by Bokar Rimpoche himself and ritual music from the Mirik Monastery (Himalayan Mountains in Northern India, between Bhutan and Nepal).

A message from Bokar Rimpoche

"We, practising Buddhists, must understand that all that we accomplish in this life results originally from our mothers goodness. For it is first thanks to her that we are able to survive. It is her that fed us, clothed us, and who took care of our education. But in reality, our whole life depends on all the other beings and their activities. For example, meat, milk and butter are given to us by the animals. Our food, our clothes, our home depend on the work and effort of many other beings. In other words, on this earth, every day of our lives is lived depending on an infinite number of other beings for no one, since their birth, can survive alone. They would have no food and no clothes. So we must be aware that our life depends on the contribution of many other beings who show goodness towards us . Therefore it is all beings, without exception, that we should hold dear ! Even without referring to the word of Buddha, this interdependence between all beings is easy to understand".

birth ends in death
accumulation ends in exhaustion
construction ends in destruction
union ends in seperation
everything, by its very nature,
is marked by impermanency
nothing and no-one remains eternally