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On the Spiritual Significance of Music...

My own music is based on two traditions: Western pop and Indian classical music. My experience of these two musical forms illustrates the very different understanding of ‘spirituality’ in the East and West. Western pop is rooted in mass entertainment (Victorian music hall, folk, the blues etc), and generally provides people with a way to express their frustrations at the limitations of their ordinary working and romantic...

Bhagwan, Bangla, Bhalobasa - A Bengal Diary 1986...

Dragony - A Fable...

Old-Saw-Herself with a tiny portrait of the Fire Man DRAGONY by Chinmaya Dunster Being a fable that came to me in 1991 during Mystic Rose silent sitting in Lao Tsu Walkway, Osho International Meditation Resort, Pune, India Illustrations by Chinmaya Dunster Frontispiece: ‘Old-Saw-Herself’, together with a tiny portrait of the Fire Man. Endpiece: In the Land of the Monkeys. Contents: 1 Long ago and far away 2...

Smiles from off the Road in India...

The first solar for Jhuni...

On 17th Nov a team from Avani went to Jhuni to install solar panels and batteries. Thanks to YOUR donations the first 24 Jhuni families now have light in their homes! 15 more will receive...

Smiles from off the road at KIMFF...

Just heard that my film Smiles from off the Road has been selected to be screened at the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival 2009 (Nepal). The festival will be held from 10-14 December 2009. Their Press Release reads: “The festival will screen some of the most recent and exciting films about mountains, mountain environment, mountain cultures and communities from various corners of the world. KIMFF is...

Movie & Music Festival @ Reliance TimeOut...

On 23 Aug, in three towns across India: Bangalore, Gurgaon and Kochi, all five short films of ‘Smiles From Off The Road’ were shown during a Movie & Music Festival organised by the book and music stores Reliance TimeOut.

SMILES ARE APPEALING -2010 JHUNI APPEAL...

June 1st 2011: WE HAVE ‘TIL NOW RAISED Rs500,000 and more than fifty homes are solar lighted. May 15th 2011: I HAVE JUST RETURNED FROM A LOVELY VISIT TO JHUNI, WHERE WE DISTRIBUTED 100 ROBUST SOLAR FLASHLIGHTS (DONATED FROM USA) AT A NOMINAL COST OF RS80 EACH. THE RESULTING RS8000 WILL BE USED TO PROVIDE ONE SOLAR LIGHTING SYSTEM FOR THE VILLAGE TEMPLE. I AM NOW CHANGING THIS APPEAL FOR FUNDS. THOSE VILLAGERS...

Land of the Buddhas...

My new CD ‘Land of the Buddhas’ is just released. It is a compilation of seven of my favourite songs from my New Earth Records CDs. If you have one of my CDs already, and were wondering which to buy next, or if you don’t have -this is the one! It is available for listening, downloading and buying with New Earth Records or with iTunes. The film to go with it I shot all over India (colourful birds...

Twenty years with New Earth Records...

Terra Incognita Live in Munich 1990 It will soon be my 20th anniversary with New Earth Records and, as they are releasing my first ever compilation CD ‘Land of the Buddhas’, I feel it is time to have a glance backwards. It all began in 1990 (when NER was Tao Music and based in Munich), when Bhikkhu invited a group of friends to record Tao’s first music CD. The six of us assembled in a large room in the country...