A little while back, rapper Xzibit’s “Concentrate” video — featuring the Buddhist chant Nam myoho renge kyo — was a Horse Video of the Moment. We also VoTM’d the first, kind-of hip-hoppy video from Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, head of Shambhala International.
It seems that Singa Rinpoche, a thirty-year-old Tibetan lama, has gotten into Da Rap Game as well. He’s released an album in which he mixes rap with Buddhist chanting in English, Chinese, and Tibetan. This hasn’t done much to help his reputation — he’s frequently criticized for his too-Western ways (indulging in expensive clothes and cars) and his cavalier interpretations of his monk’s precepts.
And then, there’s the video:
No need for gratuitous snarkiness. Watch it and draw your own conclusions.
That is, if you can get through it!
…Ooops, that was gratutiously snarky.
Bad Horse!
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