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Kongshey​-​A Song from Kongpo

by Techung

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Kongshey Gangtoe Dang Thonpo,
The Heights of the Snow Mountain


This is a traditional dance song from Kongpo, Tibet. Traditionally youths in Kongpo dance all night and when dawn comes, they sing this song to return to their homes.


I dedicate this song to Pema Tashi, a friend and a lover of Tibetan music. He passed away a few months ago from a long illness. I came to know this only now.

I have known Pema since the nineties when I was running Chaksampa Tibetan Dance and Opera Company, in the Bay Area. He always enjoyed our performances and participated and supported our work. During the Year of Tibet, 1991, he was with us as a member and I even asked him to join our group. He is not an artist but a very kind and thoughtful person. He makes friends easily and especially with women. He was a great flirter. Pema was a special being. We will miss him dearly.

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Kongpo Song: The Heights of the Snow Mountain

The heights of the Snow Mountain - let the dawn of long life and joy appear clearly and the white snow lioness shall return to the heights of the snow mountain with tossing her beautiful turquoise mane.

The heights of the Rocky Mountain - let the dawn of long life and joy appear clearly and the white vulture shall return to the heights of the Rocky Mountain with display of its beautiful wing's skill.

The height of the meadow-let the dawn of long life and joy appear clearly and
the cute brown deer shall return to the height of the meadow showing off her antlers.

ཀོང་གཞས་གངས་སྟོད་དང་མཐོན་པོ།

གངས་སྟོད་དང་མཐོན་ལེ་མོ་། ཚེ་རིང་ལ་སྐྱིད་པའི་ནམ་སྒོ་ཡ་ལ་གསལ་གསལ་བ་གནང་དང་།
སེང་གེ་དང་དཀར་ལེ་མོ། གཡུ་རལ་ཡག་མོ་ངོམ་སོ་ཕྱོགས་ནས་ལོག་ནས་འགྲོ།

བྲག་སྟོད་དང་མཐོན་ལེ་མོ། ཚེ་རིང་ལ་སྐྱིད་པའི་ནམ་གོ་ཡ་ལ་གསལ་གསལ་བ་གནང་དང་།
ཐང་དཀར་དང་རྒོད་ལེ་པོ། ཤོག་རྩལ་ཡག་མོ་ངོམ་སོ་ཕྱོགས་ནས་ལོག་ནས་འགྲོ།

སྤང་སྟོད་དང་མཐོན་ལེ་མོ། ཚེ་རིང་ལ་སྐྱིད་པའི་ནམ་སྒོ་ཡ་ལ་གསལ་གསལ་བ་གནང་དང་།
ཤ་བ་དང་སྨུག་ཆུང་། རྭ་རྩེ་ཡག་མོ་ངོམ་སོ་ཕྱོགས་ནས་ལོག་ནས་འགྲོ།།

Gang toe dang dhon le mo, Tsering la kipai nago ya la se se wa nang dang
Senge dang kar le mo, yu rel ya mo ngom so chok ne lok ne dro
Senge dang kar le mo, yu rel ya mo ngom so chok ne lok ne dro
Padoa ya!


Dak toe dang dhon le mo, Tsering la kipai nago ya la se se wa nang dang
Thank kar dang goe le po, shok tsel ya mo ngom so cho ne lo ne dro
Thank kar dang goe le po, shok tsel ya mo ngom so cho ne lo ne dro
Padoa ya!

Pang to dang thon le me, Tsering la kipai nago ya la se se wa nang dang
Sha wa dang muk le chung, Ratse ya mo ngom so chok ne log ne dro
Sha wa dang muk le chung, Ratse ya mo ngom so chok ne log ne dro
Padoa ya!

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released June 17, 2021
Techung: Voice, lutes, and percussions
Jhola: Mix and master

Special Thanks to:
Sisa Salgado
Dakpa Gyatso Acharya

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Techung Lake Placid, New York

Techung is a Tibetan singer/ songwriter/performer living in the Adirondacks in New York.

Techungs’s career along with his ongoing projects demonstrates his commitment to Tibetan music and culture. Techung is equally comfortable addressing secular and sacred aspects of the culture. ... more

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