Loten Namling is a Tibetan musician, singer, multi-media artist (performance and visual), curator, filmmaker, activist, thinker, and a global ambassador/patriot for Tibetan culture and heritage. He was born in Darjeeling, India to Tibetan refugee parents。 He studied at St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, now living in Switzerland. Namling has been singing for over 45 years. He is considered one of the finest Tibetan traditional contemporary musicians. He received transmission of singing with Dranyen (lute) from his dear parents. On a rocky edge, high up in the Himalayas in India, as a young boy, after TCV school, Namling would run and stood on top of the rock, singing to the vast expansion of the boundless land on the high plateau. His mother told Namling: “My son, one day, you will travel with Dranyen around the world for Tibetan music.” Namling’s performances include not only songs but also stories of his lives and fates of the Tibetan people from the ancient time to the present. He traveled the world with his lute, singing the traditional Tibetan songs as well as the songs for His Holiness Dalai Lamas (2 nd and 6 th and 14 th ). His footprints include the North Poles, Mongolia, Kalmykia, Estonia, Czech Republic, Japan, Wales, Africa, USA, Germany, Korea, India, Norway, from remote rural villages to capital concert halls. He tells stories of Tibetan lives, connecting and performing Tibetan music with regional musicians from Arab countries to Rajasthan, India to Mongolia and beyond. His Holiness the 14 th Dalai Lama called Namling “a singer with a voice.” Namling formed Porok Karpo in 2015, he is the founder and frontman of this world preeminent Swiss-Tibetan folk pop-rock fusion band. And it has been making its influence across Europe and beyond. He is passionately and consciously dedicating to link traditional Tibetan music to contemporary blues, rocks, raps and traditional world music, tirelessly connecting the sounds of Tibet and Himalayas to a world culture and spiritual journeys without boundaries. His mission is to revive and preserve traditional Tibetan music and its tradition and to promote the understanding of Tibetan history, culture and heritage with truth. He has released five albums including: Behind the Two Mountains and Porok Karpo: Tibetan Alternative Rock. In 2013, Namling gained wide recognition for Tibet with his ‘Journey for Freedom – One Man, One Path’, where he dragged a black coffin with the sign FREE TIBET from Bern to Geneva. Upon his arrival, he gave a concert in front of the UN headquarters building. The performance and journeys were documented in Tibetan Warrior film (2015). Namling acted as a guru in Shambhala (2024), in competition for the Best Foreign Film at Oscar, his film credits include: Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache (2019), Vox Pacis: A Challenge to Humanity (2010), Angry Monk: Reflections on Tibet (2005), and Beresina or The Last Days of Switzerland (1999),