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The Song Collector - Documentary film
Through the intimate interactions of three generations of the Namgyal family, The Song Collector explores the uneasy relationship between culture and development and ultimately offers a new vision, inspired by the Buddhist concept of the ‘middle path’, that seeks to find a lasting coexistence between tradition and modernization.
A DOCUMENTARY FILM BY ERIK KOTO EDITED BY GRETCHEN BURGER
FEATURING MUSIC BY MORUP NAMGYAL WITH TSERING CHOROL AND STANZIN "NONO" SAMCHOK
FESTIVAL SCREENINGS
MountainFilm Telluride (world premiere)
Winner - Indomitable Spirit Award, MountainFilm Telluride
BANFF Mountain Film Festival
Seattle South Asian Film Festival
Buddhist Film Festival Europe
Brescia Mountain Culture Festival
Kathmandu International Film Festival
Winner - Awareness Film Festival merit award
Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival Library
Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival
Ethnografilm Festival Paris
Rainier Arts Center screening series
NalandaWest spiritual center screening
Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference
Society for Visual Anthropology Film Festival
PBS broadcast - Reel NW
Northwest Folklife Festival
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  • @Halal7-8-6
    @Halal7-8-6 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ཨ་བ་ངོས་འགྲུབ་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་སྐུ་ཚེ་རིང་🙏

  • @KonchokNamgail-e8n
    @KonchokNamgail-e8n 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Aba Murup namgail you are my favourite singer you make a ladakh ladakh proud that we have a old ladakh song I really listen your songs rather than modern song 👍🙏🥺

  • @kodoley09
    @kodoley09 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you Team l keep updating more

  • @NilzaAngmo-b7z
    @NilzaAngmo-b7z 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ❤❤❤❤

  • @martinfoy9327
    @martinfoy9327 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yo, I deliberately came on here because I figured the comments would be fucking crazy. They’re not that bad, but no one has a worst taste in their mouth. Well let me just say this I don’t like the ram, my fucking beliefs down peoples throat as long as they don’t do it to be so instead of shitting on somebody who’s having fun their life Cause you don’t like it don’t fucking throw it under the bus they wanna rock on for whatever they believe in let them and I agree rock ‘n’ roll used to be safe pelican and all the other comments but people just can’t fucking leave people alone just let them do shit you’re not fucking white shit like you came here just to fucking shit on it Asshole shit

  • @DechenWangmo-rz6hs
    @DechenWangmo-rz6hs 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow!🤩😍 Such an overwhelming documentry film. Wanna express my heartfelt appreciation for sharing this incredible and precious video. It's a truly captivating and heartening video. Watching Ajhanglay cry truly moved me to tears. Wanna express special thanks to Ajhanglay Murup Namgyal , for his commendable efforts in safeguarding the cultural treasures of ladakh. ❤😍 Keep inspiring Ajhanglay.

  • @AnayatNabi
    @AnayatNabi 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ladakh proud of you sir

  • @tashidolker3924
    @tashidolker3924 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Beautiful documentary you are great and true legend of Ladakh padma shri Murup Namgail lay you are best Singer of Ladakh , God bless you sir

  • @GelekLundup
    @GelekLundup 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great👍👍👍

  • @lobzangwangdus3818
    @lobzangwangdus3818 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ལ་དྭགས་ཀྱི་དོན་ལ་ཕྱག་ལས་གང་ཆེན་མཛད་པར་ཨ་ཕ་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་དང་ཁོང་གི་ནང་ཚང་ཀུན་ལ་བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་མང་པོ་ཞུ།

  • @Ahmadaliexplore
    @Ahmadaliexplore 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ❤❤

  • @RigzinTongyan
    @RigzinTongyan 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ❤❤

  • @katnip198
    @katnip198 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Beautiful documentary. This man left many wonderful songs for the people of Ladakh. I know the impact his life has and will have on his grandson.

  • @PamaAngmo-p8o
    @PamaAngmo-p8o 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I just passed from lamdon school in 2023 and I had studied here for 14 years those were the best days of my life . I am very thankful for all the teachers ❤️

  • @PamaAngmo-p8o
    @PamaAngmo-p8o 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Tears literally rolled down my face while watching this film. I am very proud to be a member of lamdon family ❤️

  • @tashiangchuk3604
    @tashiangchuk3604 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    legendary padma sheri morup namgyal🎉

  • @shyiwatsho5339
    @shyiwatsho5339 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Such a lovely documentary. Am in love with the Ladakhi way of life and people. Kudos to Yap Namgyal for preserving his culture and way of life.

  • @NawangJigmat
    @NawangJigmat 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ཁྱེད་ནང་མི་ཀུན་ལ་ཚེ་དངོས་སྒྲུབ་ཐོབ་ཤིག ཨ་བ་ངུ་རུབ། རྣམ་རྒྱལ་གྱི་མཛད་འཕྲིན་ཀུན་གནམ་མཁའ་ཡིས་མཐའ་བཞིན་དུ་རྒྱས་པའི་རེ་སྨོན་ཡིན་ལགས།

  • @ttopten52
    @ttopten52 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow it’s so amazing you are true legend of Ladakh Morup Namgyal lay-I have no words to say but one think I would like to say you are hero of Ladakh 🙏🙏

  • @yeshidorjay5480
    @yeshidorjay5480 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing life story and great Contribution for the Ladakhi society. Jullay May May Morup Namgial. You are a great man of Ladakh! Long live May May le. Ya ju

  • @ladakhnewsinfo
    @ladakhnewsinfo ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing 🎉❤ heartouching story of "legendary morup namgail"..... Well filmed by Erik....💐👏👏

  • @SonamWangdus-s8e
    @SonamWangdus-s8e ปีที่แล้ว

    Film ma demo duk lay vvv nice acho lay

  • @esheykar9845
    @esheykar9845 ปีที่แล้ว

    We have immense respect to ajangly Morup Namgail. Thank you for doing so much and giving back so much to our society. You will always Iive in our hearts and of future generations forever .👏👏🙏🏻💐

  • @tsewangchosdon
    @tsewangchosdon ปีที่แล้ว

    A masterpiece. A must watch!

  • @Ladakhdheaven
    @Ladakhdheaven ปีที่แล้ว

    Immense contribution by Mama Murup Namgyal 🙏.

  • @Antena.est13
    @Antena.est13 ปีที่แล้ว

    ka Morup Namgyal not only entertained a generation but passed down his knowledge to the younger generation in a very beautiful way. Today I see many younger folks taking great interest in folk songs again. All credit goes to Ka Morup Namgyal. Stay happy and stay blessed Ka🙏

  • @tseringgyalpo1960
    @tseringgyalpo1960 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great❤👍👏

  • @tashilhamo9807
    @tashilhamo9807 ปีที่แล้ว

    🌺🌺🌺👏

  • @wallamboklahong9125
    @wallamboklahong9125 ปีที่แล้ว

    My most fondled songs are these Flock songs, as I give my ears to hear them, they freshren my Childhood beautiful playful Days. They are Lovely and Great. Every Tribes have Flock cultural Songs by which try to present their ways n Likings, etc.

  • @Tseringstopdan
    @Tseringstopdan ปีที่แล้ว

    🎉🎉🎉😅😅😅rak hy mama ley bas

  • @morupnamgyal4896
    @morupnamgyal4896 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is because of your blessings and encouragement. This flim has awarded with the Mountain Flim Award 2016 in USA. I thank Mr. Erik Koto who is the well wisher of Ladakh, Lamdon and Myself and because of him I am able to visit USA and got the opportunity to receive the Mountain Flim Award. Thank You my friends , well wishers for your kind blessings and kind words. Jullay and Thank You Erik Koto this is because of your hard work for making the Song Collector. Regards 🙏

    • @rikkinamgail9103
      @rikkinamgail9103 ปีที่แล้ว

      Biggest fan of u sirr. ...... I am rigzen Namgail from changthang and I learnt our traditional song for marriage a little bit...... And I am proud of it....

  • @stofficialyt7503
    @stofficialyt7503 ปีที่แล้ว

    A gem of ladakh 💎 truly proud❤️

  • @Tashizotak
    @Tashizotak ปีที่แล้ว

    We salute you Aba murup Namgyal Lyy 🙏🙏🙏

  • @tenzinwangdu6429
    @tenzinwangdu6429 ปีที่แล้ว

    It was Ladakh-Tibetan Border…Ladakh clearly was influenced by Tibetan Way of life and Tradition.There’s nothing common between china and Ladakh’s Culture but Tibetan Culture and Ladhakhs Culture clearly resembles.Ladhakh Clearly used to be part of Tibet back in the day.

  • @padmanamgyal7427
    @padmanamgyal7427 ปีที่แล้ว

    We love it❤

  • @Emptinesscreation
    @Emptinesscreation ปีที่แล้ว

    Truly heart rendering film. Mr. Morup’s true dedication and passion to preserve Ladakhi folk songs and pass down to his family and younger generation. May his vision and dream be fulfilled

  • @nawangchundus232
    @nawangchundus232 ปีที่แล้ว

    མ་བདེ་མོ་་རང་❤འདུག་་སྐྱིད་་པོ😍👍👍👍🏿

  • @Ladakh_pa
    @Ladakh_pa ปีที่แล้ว

    Capturing the soul-stirring melodies of Ladakh's enchanting singer, this documentary seamlessly weaves together the threads of culture, passion, and resilience, creating a harmonious masterpiece that resonates with the heartbeats of a unique musical heritage.❤

  • @HYPOCRISY___
    @HYPOCRISY___ ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks Mr. Erik from the core of my heart ❤❤❤

  • @lobsangyeshi6764
    @lobsangyeshi6764 ปีที่แล้ว

    ལོ་རྒྱུས་བོ་མ་བདེ་མོ་དང་སྙན་མོ་ཞིག་ཚོར། ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ། འཇུ་ལེ།

  • @chochoedu53
    @chochoedu53 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ma demo lay....Beautiful documentary...

  • @gyalu0077
    @gyalu0077 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm extremely inspired by his contribution to Ladakh society and motivated with his divine voice. 🎉 tried to find his sing on Spotify, can't find!!

  • @zomskitdolma4861
    @zomskitdolma4861 ปีที่แล้ว

    Such a great documentary 😍❤

  • @paldandorjey388
    @paldandorjey388 ปีที่แล้ว

    May May morup namgyal ly you are inspiration ❤

  • @thupstandawa1908
    @thupstandawa1908 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very Unfortunate to be a part of India 🥹 GAREEEB DESH 😇

  • @tashiwangyal1467
    @tashiwangyal1467 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very nice story ajang murop namgyal Yang domo domo rik share choyo tset nering tsering ma demo ly 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @thupstangurmet2893
    @thupstangurmet2893 ปีที่แล้ว

    བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ།

  • @kungadepp6593
    @kungadepp6593 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great documentary 👍👍

  • @ladakhdiaries..3577
    @ladakhdiaries..3577 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's great contribution to uplift culture and custom of ladakh

  • @rinurbu
    @rinurbu ปีที่แล้ว

    Very well made 👏