The Dalai Lama made a bid for music chart stardom on Monday, his 85th birthday, with the release of an album of mantras and teachings.“Inner World” kicks off with the track “One Of My Favourite Prayers” and continues with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader reciting meditations and sayings with accompanying music.The record came about when musician Junelle Kunin, a student of the Dalai Lama from New Zealand, contacted him in 2015 with the idea – and much to her surprise he said yes.“I thought I’d have to try and convince him,” she told Reuters in an interview from her home in Auckland.“That moment of recording him, my goodness I was shaking like a leaf before I went in there,” she said.Kunin did the initial recordings at the Dalai Lama’s.
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