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Tibetan Buddhist music at Lowell Festival

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Tibetan Buddhist performer Penpa Tsering, who is a throat singer, a flautist, and a dancer, among other talents, will be performing today and tomorrow at the Lowell Folk Festival. Stephanie Schorow in Globe NorthWest has the story:

"Tsering, 44, explains - almost apologetically - that he learned to play music from a teacher in white robes with white hair, carrying a white flute, and accompanied by a white horse, who has come to him in dreams. No, he doesn't understand why this spirit teacher chose him or why he can learn so much while he sleeps. He is mystified by this and says he always prays before a concert, in gratitude. It's true that many people don't believe him, he acknowledges, but 'I never had any regular teacher. I learned from dreams.'"

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Michael Paulson covers religion for The Boston Globe. He shared in the Pulitzer Prize in 2003, won the Mike Berger, Templeton and Supple awards in 2008, and is a four-time winner of the Wilbur Award.
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