Ani Choying Drolma | Musician | Philanthropist | #32

Aha! Moments is an experimental show that is initiated in the HOPE and DREAM of serving a mirror for us to see ourselves in other’s STORIES by discussing and spreading IDEAS, HOPES and DREAMS.
Guest: Ani Choeying Drolma
From the age of five, Ani Choying had to struggle to survive. Not a day went by without a beating from her father, without her fearing for her mother's life or her own. The day her father nearly stabbed her to death, she decided it was time to run away.
Ani Chöying escaped her violent home for a monastery in Nepal, where a Buddhist monk offered her sanctuary and understanding, teaching her to embrace life again. Cheeky and mischievous by nature, she rebelled against the rules of the community at first and delighted in flouting convention by learning kung fu.
One day, an American jazz guitarist heard the young nun sing and was so enthralled by her voice that he invited her to record an album with him. The royalty cheque was an unexpected windfall that enabled her to fulfil a long-cherished dream: to set up a school for young girls like herself, in a country where 80 per cent of women are illiterate. In 2000 Ani Chöying opened Arya Tara School, just outside Kathmandu. She went on to adopt a little girl, then two, and then another followed - until they became sixty.
Ani Choying now tours the world giving concerts, driven by her desire to help her young Nepalese charges.
Video: ‪@dawabee2157‬

[@dawachodon7166]

She is modern ani la. She is never in Tibet cause. Why you guys are interested to such person.???

[@tseringdolma6054]

Yes you are right. Why????

[@chomphelnorbu705]

Thank you for another great interview.

[@sonamgonpo3688]

TOO INSIGHTFUL🫡

[@thuptenthapkesherpa8996]

👉 སྐྱེས་སྨན་✔️ སྐྱེས་དམན་❌

[@sonamyangzom-wh1xp]

This woman never calls herself Tibetan, she (zabarzasti) pretends herself to be a Nepali and tries hard to prove herself Nepali. Every year she goes to celebrate Chinese New Year at the Chinese Embassy in Nepal. All old Tibetans living in Kathmandu Boudha know that her parents were Khampa Tibetans. Her Nepali language is way fluent than Tibetan.

[@thuptengyaltsen3328]

རྒྱའི་རྒྱུགས་ཁྱི་ཁྱི་མོ་རེད་འདུགས་པས་་ཁྱོད་རང་སམ་ཚུལ་གན་གྲ་ཡོད་

[@woserwele1]

Why she was went to Chinese embassy for Chinese New year ?

[@tenzinpassang5227]

Isn't she the one who was celebrating Tibetan LOOSAR at Chinese embassy in Nepal ? I was wondering why did she do that ? It is so sad.😞😭

[@nyimadorje5016]

It's her choice

[@hellohi_____________4089]

Chinese spy ani 😮

[@thuptentsultrim3486]

རྒྱ་མི་གཞུང་ཚབ་ལ་འགྲོ་མཁན་དེ་རེད་འདུག་

[@sarmara3634]

She is Chinese nun

[@ThinleyWangdu-em5vl]

Proof keep ur mouth

[@chandraghatani2686]

No she is neapli nun

[@ལསྟོདཕོཉ]

བལ་ཡུལ་རྒྱ་དམར་གཞུང་ཚབས་དང་ལག་འབྲེལ་རེད་བ་

[@jangchupdorjee7996]

ལྟས་ངན་ཁྱེད་རང་བོད་ཡིག་ཙམ་ལས་གང་ཤེས་སམ།

[@jangchupdorjee7996]

ལྟས་ངན་ཁྱེད་རང་བོད་ཡིག་ཙམ་ལས་གང་ཤེས་སམ།

[@Samurai-np7su]

I love aha moments interview of Jamyang Norbulak.... But this ani somehow I found that she is trying to blame the tradition of her heritage to boost her fame. is she even Tibetan? I never heard her say one word for Tibetan cause. its abt herself all the time

[@SonamNorbu-br1vl]

རྒྱ་ནག་གི་རྒྱུགས་ཁྱི

[@taidelek9994]

Nepal has been the worst place for tibwtan refugees, and after all these years, the silence of the bhudist community of nepal is simply unfortunate and discouraging.

[@BelieveInTheTruth.]

Shut up your mouth. How dare to you said these. Are you already forgot that Nepal government was how much kindness to Tibetan refugee in the first place. now Nepal is changed.if one day India should be also change then are you also saying like these to them? You're just shameless guy. Nepal government gave the better places for Tibetan refugee lol but India not, they gave worst places like manu jika TILA and etc. At least learn from past and just react ok.

[@tsetennorbu6771]

ཨ་ནེ་ཆོས་དབྱིངས་ལགས་ཀྱི་བོད་སྐད་བརྙན་ཐུང་མཐོང་བ་དང་པོ་ཡིན། ཧ་ཅང་དགའ་པོ་བྱུང་། ཁོང་གི་ཕྱག་ལས་དང་ཆོས་དབྱངས་སོགས་ལ་བསྔགས་བརྗོད་གྲངས་མེད་ཡོད། ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉

[@wisdom9109]

Hello i feel great moment. Also if you in Nepal. Please bring sonam topden. He is greatest struggle to his way of care.

[@prosperousy8426]

Tibetan cricizing you by singing Nepali pop helps you now to sing only Dharma songs. Moreover don't forget your blood is Tibetan.

[@狮雪]

I didn’t expect that she is in Aha moment though I love this channel 😢

[@jampalhundup1846]

རྔ་དང་ནག་མོ་གཉིས་རྡུང་དགོས་རེད་ཅེས་པ་དེ་ཧིན་རྡུ་ཆོས་ལུགས་ཀྱི་ཤུགས་རྐྱེན་ཡིན་ས་རེད། དུས་རབས་ ༡༥ ནང་བྱུང་བའི་ཧིན་རྡུ་ཆོས་པ་དང་དགའ་བྱེད་སྤྱོད་པ་འབྲི་མཁན་ཏུལ་སི་རྡས་ཞེས་པ་དེས་ " རྔ་དང་། བླུན་པོ། དམངས་རིགས། དུད་འགྲོ། བུད་མེད་རྣམས་བརྡུང་བྱ་རེད།" ཅེས་བྲིས་ཡོད། (ढोल, गंवार, शूद्र, पशु नारी। सकल ताड़ना के अधिकारी।।)

[@lhawanggeshe8128]

བས་ཡུལ་རྒྱ་ནག་གཞུང་ཚབ་ནང་ལ་སྐུ་མགྲོན་སྣེ་ལེན།

[@jangchupdorjee7996]

ལྟས་ངན་གླང་དམར།

[@prosperousy8426]

Government government, people people all mean to be N.. Though I am not jealous but what I surprised was on one of the platform in US even if they raised Tibetan issue, still she didn't mention. I was surprised for her reaction.

[@andrewray8262]

Buchung la, very nice and informative. Now please do aha moment with one and only legend singer Tsering Gyurmey la while you are in Nepal. We are waiting here. Thanks ❤❤❤

[@BhuchungKata]

Yes. Soon!

[@tibgalvlog]

Yes!!! Want to hear from the Legend singer one and only Tse Gyurmey la

[@shergyal4781]

དཔའ་མོ་རེད། ཁོང་གི་གསུང་མོལ་ནང་སེམས་འགུལ་ཐེབས་ཐུབ་པའི་ལེགས་བཤད་མང་།

[@lobsangbhutti2466]

ཨ་ནི་རང་རྗེ་བཙུན་སྒྲོལ་མས་སྤྲལ་རེད་བསམས་ཀྱི་འདུག་་་་ཨ་ཧ་མུ་མེན་མཛད་པ་པོ་ལ་ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་བརྙན་ཐོང་ཧ་ལས་པ་བཟོས་ཀྱི་འདུག་་

[@lobsangbhutti2466]

སྤྲུལ་པ་

[@tenzintashi1095]

Aha moment brings lots of positivity, informative & lots more...One of the best youtuber in exile today... Congratulations for such a great content... Hatsoff to you bhuchung kata lak..

[@lobsangyeshi6216]

ཨ་ནེ་་ལ་་་བོད་་བ་་རེད་་་བས་་་བོད་པ་ཡིན་ན་་བོད་་ས་ཆ་་ག་་བ་་ཡེད་་་

[@prosperousy8426]

བོད་པ་བསམ་གྱི་ཡོད་ས་མ་རེད་་་ དོ་སྣང་མང་པོ་བྱེད་ཡིན་་་

[@welcome1891]

Ani choyeing dolma song title[ fool ko aakha ma fool hai samsara ]touches 30 millions Nepali non Buddhist community , which led many interest on Tibetan Buddhism as before Nepali think Buddhism is only a religion for Tibetan and ethnic Tibetan people reside in Himalayan region now a days many appreciated Buddhism thought most having a Hindu tradition. This is small gesture of ani Cho yang

[@jacktamz]

Wow Anila i became ur fan after this interview 🙏🏻

[@yeshilhundup1909]

བལ་ཡུལ་དུ་ཕེབས་པར་ཡག་བྱུང་། ད་ལེན་དེར་བཞུགས་རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་གསར་འགྱུར་བཤད་མཁན་བོད་ཁ་ཆེ་ལ་དང་མཉམ་དུ་ལེ་ཚན་ཞིག་ཡོད་པ་མཁྱེན། ཕ་བཟང་བུ། 👍

[@pematseten6947]

Tashi Delek Buchung la it’s always nice to watch you your show- Aha moment. If possible while you are in Nepal, can you approach Tsering Gyurmey la. He is one of the legends who changed the Tibetan singing culture. Thank you!

[@thegchoggyaltsen1762]

Well said

[@thegchoggyaltsen1762]

Here m watching ur show from Switzerland 🇨🇭 it’s is wonderful show. Ani choying Dolma la is my Dharma Sister.we r from same Guru.felt very happy see her on this beautiful show.. thank u Buchung la n keep doing it🙏🙏👍👍

[@BhuchungKata]

We met this morning already. We are doing a conversation very soon. Thank you ☘️

[@N.Dhonyoe]

Her knowledge is so powerful n meaningful... I mean her advices thank you so much ani la keep doing good 🌞👍

[@sonamyangzom-wh1xp]

This woman never calls herself Tibetan, she (zabarzasti) pretends herself to be a Nepali and tries hard to prove herself Nepali. Every year she goes to celebrate Chinese New Year at the Chinese Embassy in Nepal. All old Tibetans living in Kathmandu Boudha know that her parents were Khampa Tibetans. Her Nepali language is way fluent than Tibetan.

[@hellohi_____________4089]

@@sonamyangzom-wh1xp yes right

[@ཆརསིམསིམ]

བོད་སྐད་དཔེ་ཡག་པོ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་འདུག་ག་ཨ་མ་ལོ་སྔོན་མ་ངས་བལ་ཡུལ་གྱི་གཞས་མ་ཞིག་ཨ་ནི་བཟོས་འཇོ་རེད་དྲན་སོང་ཡང་ཡིན་ས་མ་རེད་འདུག

[@lobsangkhedup8979]

རྒྱ་ནག་དང་མཉམ་ལས་བྱེད་མཁན་གྱི་གང་ཟག་ཞིག་ལ་མཐོང་ཆེན་དེ་འདྲ་བྱས་པ་ཡིན་ན་རྒྱལ་ཞེན་ཅན་མང་པོའི་སེམས་ལ་རྨ་ཁ་བཟོས་པ་རེད་ ་་་་

[@namgyalsaldon1744]

You should interview instead our ever green our one and only artist Tsering gyermey la if you are in Nepal

[@BhuchungKata]

Stay tuned

[@lakshmi9433]

We Tibetans must know that literally she is engaging ccp china government officials meeting and all !!! Be careful whom you trust n respect!!!

[@ttashi3376]

Nice to see surprise guest. She has done great humanitarian job in Nepal. I guess you should start asking the guest about any controversy they dealt in past. This will clear so many doubts peaople heard of .

[@siouxiez1282]

i argue cz my parents never ever talked me girl is less than boy….. by the way when i was young i wants to be nun …… but my parents say big NO they say until i’m old enough to understand

[@phuntsoktashi789]

I don’t think in our community has a lack of respect and equality for the woman. Compare with another race and culture.

[@prosperousy8426]

Ya, she seems to be saying about her Nepali villagers around Nepal besides her home.

[@lobsang4629]

རྒྱ་མའི་རྒྱགས་ཁྱི་གཞས་གཏོང་ཡ་དགའ་བོ་ཡོད་ཟེར་རླུག་པ་ལ་དགའ་བོ་ཡོད་པེས་ཕ་རོ་ཟ

[@sonamasangtsang2244]

རྒྱ་མིའི་གཞུང་ཚབ་ནང་དུ་སྐུ་མགྲོན་འགྲོ་དགོས་པའི་རྒྱུ་མཚན་གང་ཡིན་ནམ་་་་

[@vajraheart6052]

Oh I thought Ani la is Nepalese as I haven’t seen Chola saying she is Tibetan and can speak the language 😮

[@demigod5220]

Same, I thought so too

[@Screenshot123.]

Wow ,Next DJ Karma Bangalore yin da Katala

[@lobsangtsering5989]

Wonderful interview. Kudos Ani la and Bhuchung la.

[@ཆརསིམསིམ]

རྗེ་བཙུན་སྒྲོལ་མའི་རྣམ་གྲོལ་ཞིག་ཡིན་ས་རེད་།

[@tenzinxingjang]

Thank you so much for this enlightening interview. As a Tibetan female, I resonate heavily with what Anila has expressed in this interview. Especially what she said around at 12:25 to 13:00. Recently, a Tibetan male companion made an ignorant comment toward older, single women which was deeply rooted in prejudice and stigma that honestly shocked me and more so as this person is currently working towards a PhD. Therefore, it resonates when she says regardless of how educated one becomes, the age old patriarchal way of thinking is difficult to shake off - unless one consciously makes an effort to examine their thoughts/behavior and unlearn.

[@Ancykhampa]

I know too well about how women in our community can be ostracised if you try and break norms. My own experience has completely put me off and I stay clear away from being involved now. Mind you, I founded NFP Tibetan charity in my teen years, raised awareness for community as well as undertook many initiatives for the community. Not to mention, it left me with no choice but to just give up and wash my hands off. It broke my spirit……yet I’m hopeful. Would I consider being nun? Perhaps 😂

[@kaldetoonart]

Thank you once again, feel so good to know more about Anila. A-ha moment is Best .

[@familyoriented6847]

Very impressed and thankful that I got a chance to learn more about Ani la. Bhuchung la, Where should I find Ani la's book?

[@karsam7751]

Another great video, very informative. Thank you so much

[@བདེནཔ]

ཨ་ནེ་བཞུགས་ས་རྫིག་པོ་དེ་འདྲ་དངོས་གནས་ཚོགས་བསག་ས་རེད།

[@bekindfornoreason6450]

Best interview so far! Ani la Tse ring and thanks for the lovely interview ❤❤❤

[@tenzzinwmo2759]

Omg…. Great talk. Love you anila…you made mr cried in a good way. Would like to meet you one day. Thank you Aha la great job and proud of u.

[@TsultimChoeda-gr1mp]

ཨ་ནེ་ཆོས་དབྱིངས་ལགས་སུ་དགའ་མོས་དང་རེ་བ་ཇི་བརྟན་འགྲོ་བྱུང་བས་དགའ་བསུ་ཡི་རང་ཞུས།

[@Kalsang-qd8mu]

ཨ་ནེ་ལགས་ཀྱི་བསམ་བློ་གཏོང་ཕྱོགས་དང་ཕྱག་ལས་དཔེ་ཡག་པོ་གནང་འདུག

[@jamyangkhedup515]

Very nice 👌👌👌

[@kalsangyangzom4611]

Wow! Amazing interview with Anila. She is such such an inspiration and practical advocate. Lots of love and respect 🙏🙏🙏

[@sonamyangzom-wh1xp]

This woman never calls herself Tibetan, she (zabarzasti) pretends herself to be a Nepali and tries hard to prove herself Nepali. Every year she goes to celebrate Chinese New Year at the Chinese Embassy in Nepal. All old Tibetans living in Kathmandu Boudha know that her parents were Khampa Tibetans. Her Nepali language is way fluent than Tibetan.

[@namgyel6447]

@@sonamyangzom-wh1xp she visit China too and organised concerts in China.

[@bhakthuk]

should’ve asked Anila to hum a line …anyways the Girija encounter was funny n interesting , overall great insights from this episode !

[@bhuchungbhuchung2858]

Tsering gyurmey as he brought lots of Interest for young Tibetan culture

[@tsamchoetsamchoe2909]

Is she a tibetan I always think her as Nepali.Alay

[@tenz341]

I too thought she’s Nepali as she sang mostly Nepali song rather than Tibetan 😮

[@ma-yeng1179]

Yes, she is Tibetan and human being first and she is doing something good cause for the Buddha dharma and other beings,not like us always look for criticism.. ❤ always positive 😊

[@Tenz306]

Wow soo blessed… I thought d same but her tib s sooo fluent as us… although she s born n brought up in Nepal… wow sooo impressive n my doubt s clear as anila s Tibetan n doing such a wonderful job… ur music mks me very light n happy… thank u 🙏🏻 anila

[@welcome1891]

She is human and her work inspired millions of Nepali as she is brand ambassador of unicef Nepal

[@kunugurung108]

Both of her parents are Tibetan but her birth place is Boudha , Kathmandu , Nepal .

[@orzimo99]

We are very curious Yardhar8 😅😅😅

[@kalsangjoys.2851]

Is she Tibetan ??? I thought she is Nepali .

[@karmarabten1149]

རྔ་ན་མོ་གཉིས་བརྡུང་དགོས་རེད་ ཟེར། ཧ་ཧ།

[@tezinray8497]

Anila, thank you for your inspiration🙏🏽💐🙏🏽

[@yamato59__]

Respect to ani la!🙏🙏

[@kungalhamo9136]

Thank you ani la , for your speech it's very meaningful and thanks to AHA movements.

[@PreetiHyolmo]

When I listen to her my heart always in peace 😊❤

[@Tuscann]

Wow! Very inspiring videos! Thank you so much Anila! 🙏👏👍🌷🥰🥰🥰

[@절대자-g1k]

내아름이 외가 홀대하지않느니라 오해들하지말라

[@oneforone1415]

Ani la tashi delek … n Bhuchung when we gonna see Tenzin Tsundue la… Tsundue la should be one of first you should have interviewed …

[@BhuchungKata]

When our time and space meet.

[@jampalodoe6449]

❤དཔེ་ཕྱག་ལས་ཡག་པོ་གནང་འ དུ ག་དྲིན་ཆེ་❤

[@lhamotso176]

དག་ག་རང་་རེད།་ཨ་ནེ་ལ།ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ།

[@lobsangsherab5287]

ཧ་ཅང་དགའ་སོང་། ཨ་ནེ་ལགས་བོད་པ་ཡིན་པ་གཞི་ནས་ཤེས་སོང་།

[@geshenorsang7305]

😂 དཔེ་ཡག་པོ་་རྗེས་སུ་ཡིད་རངས་ཡོད།

[@tenzindhadon3320]

Anila your contribution to the society is immensely commendable and appreciated. Thank you. Respect to you and so much grateful for your kindness, compassion and love for all. It’s not just a Aha moment, it’s wow moment to listen to Anila’s postcast today. She is amazing ❤

[@tsultrimphuntsok5876]

གཞས་ལབ་ཡ་ཡོད་མ་རེད། ཆོས་དབྱངས་ཞུ་དགོས་རེད།

[@ten1506]

Tashi Delek Bhuchung la, Losar Tashi Delek!!! Is it possible to provide subtitle for your videos in English as most of the Tibetans are not fluent in Tibetan. Providing the subtitle would definitely improve our vocabularies and grammar and motivate us to speak our mother tongue more often. I highly appreciate and thank you for your work and effort. Keep up the good work.

[@tenzindawa88]

བྱ་བ་ཧ་ལས་པ་ཡག་པོ་གནང་འདུག་་་བོད་སྐད་ཡང་ཡག་པོ་འདུག།

[@dhadonswitzerland3338]

མཐའ་དོན་གྱི་བཀའ་སློབ་འདི་ཧ་ཅང་ཡག་པོ་གསུངས་སོང།།

[@tibettibet4844]

Our famous Ani la with beautiful melodious voice. Her voice is so soothing and amazing. Everybody loves her voice. We are proud of you Ani la. Thank you 🙏 for everything you did in our society.

[@sonamyangzom-wh1xp]

This woman never calls herself Tibetan, she (zabarzasti) pretends herself to be a Nepali and tries hard to prove herself Nepali. Every year she goes to celebrate Chinese New Year at the Chinese Embassy in Nepal. All old Tibetans living in Kathmandu Boudha know that her parents were Khampa Tibetans. Her Nepali language is way fluent than Tibetan.

[@thdreamer]

Nah the people who dnt pay respect and admire his holiness the Dalai lama, no matter who he or she is

[@pamsjo7244]

Really your voice is peaceful ❤ and feels immensely happy.Thank you ❤❤Hats off ani la and always inspire to all

[@adrianchian56]

Ani is a great role model. She has been a great inspiration for me since I first knew of her beautiful mantra recordings and performances throughout the globe 🌎 ❤️ thank you

[@sonamyangzom-wh1xp]

This woman never calls herself Tibetan, she (zabarzasti) pretends herself to be a Nepali and tries hard to prove herself Nepali. Every year she goes to celebrate Chinese New Year at the Chinese Embassy in Nepal. All old Tibetans living in Kathmandu Boudha know that her parents were Khampa Tibetans. Her Nepali language is way fluent than Tibetan.

[@pematsomo-td3ii]

Good ,Ani choying dolma's interview and thanks Acho kunsang la .I am very inspired about the girls power.keep it up.

[@LittlePinkButterfly]

I hope Ani la gets to go to retreat soon. I pray for that kind of opportunity for myself and family. It’s so true. At the end of day, our Buddhist practice is the only thing that gives us liberation from this life. I hope we all spread that to our loved ones and others.

[@sangaysherpa146]

མིག་དཔེ་བལྟ་ས་ཞིག་འདུག

[@tse_phuntsok]

Aha moments episodes are getting more and more inspirational and informative every time. Thank you so much for alerting me of a small and underrated yet very crucial thing in our lives.🙏🙏🙏🙏 Suggestion. How more impactful would it be if you record a podcast episode of aha moments?

[@Tsesung]

He has a podcast where you can listen to his vlogs

[@namdugurung6683]

She's wonderful and beautiful women ever in this world. Buddha always blessed your activity.

[@David-bg8lu]

This guy is very smart. I like him. Using someone to take his own benefits. Meeting and interview with someone to take advantage to get more viewers and subscribers. It’s smart way to make video. Keep doing it 😂

[@samduptaschinorburtsang3603]

Hallo buchung la Very Nice Job. I watched it three times. A great start 2023

[@thubsangwogatsang9143]

Great job Ani La 💐💐💐💐🙏🙏🙏

[@yangtsolhagyal8873]

Thank you so much for your great interview.... keep doing good work 👍🏼ཨ་ཧ།

[@tenjorden3745]

Waiting for the only evergreen 🌲 Tenzin Tsundu .. do u have any plans to interview Tenzin Tsundue?

[@rinpochegimei734]

ཨ་ནེ་ལ་དེ་ཧ་ལས་པ་རེད་་་

[@thinleyn007]

Very nice and good start up with 2023 I admire her Ani la and you doing good and best wishes for 2023 ❤🙏

[@rakeshlama-hz1he]

Great interview. I see first interview in Tibetan, but I saw many interview of Anila in Nepali.

[@rigzenchosdon8598]

One of the best podcasts I have ever seen. Thank you Buchung la.

[@thuptenquebec]

Before this interview of cause i know Ani choyang Drolma is very far from me but since today I feel very close to her thanks Ani la and Buchung la!

[@lamawatpa8415]

Thanks ahnila ani true expression encouragement of self and All female ☸️🔥

[@choegyalkhan4494]

Wow. You in Nepal. I always watch your videos. Thanks we get to see many talented Tibetans.

[@tenzintsundue3599]

Buchung la very very very Good and Your Aha Moments!

[@dechenyankyi2240]

Tashi delek Thujichey kadrinchey ani lha yekpu ❤️❤️❤️💐🌷🌸🌻

[@sonamtsering458]

Kyungpo, it's going better and brighter! Thank you for all this.