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{{Short description|Indian-born Swiss singer and musician}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| birth_date        = 1963
| image=Vienna 2012-05-26 - Europe for Tibet Solidarity Rally 342 Loten Namling - Final Ceremony.jpg
}}
[[File:Vienna 2012-05-26 - Europe for Tibet Solidarity Rally 214ff Loten Namling sequence.jpg|thumb|upright|Loten Namling]]
[[File:Vienna 2012-05-26 - Europe for Tibet Solidarity Rally 342 Loten Namling - Final Ceremony.jpg|thumb|upright|...performing a well-wishing ceremony, 2012-05-26.]]

'''Loten Namling''' is an Indian-born Tibetan singer, musical artist, entertainer and cartoonist currently living in [[Switzerland]].<ref name="LotenNamlingProfile">{{cite web
  | last = Staff
  | title = Loten Namling: Profile
  | publisher = loten.ch
  | url = http://www.loten.ch/profile.shtml
  | accessdate = 4 February 2010
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090825180139/http://www.loten.ch/profile.shtml
  | archive-date = 25 August 2009
  | url-status = dead
  }}</ref> He is working on his project, "Blues", in which he explores paths linking the songs to culture.

The [[14th Dalai Lama]] once called Loten "a singer with a voice."

Based in Switzerland, the artist has travelled worldwide with his [[lute]], singing the songs of the [[2nd Dalai Lama]], as well as other traditional songs, and his own songs. From [[Kalmykia]] to [[Korea]] to Wales, Namling has performed worldwide, telling stories about his life, connecting songs of the past to the reality of the present, and inviting his audience on a journey through the landscape of spirituality.

== Early Life ==
Namling was born in India of Tibetan refugee parents.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-11-08 |title=In Conversation with Loten Namling |url=https://www.phayul.com/2013/11/08/34195/ |access-date=2024-12-24 |website=Phayul |language=en-US}}</ref> 

== Activism ==
On 13 May 2013, Namling started what he called ''A Journey for Freedom – One Man, One Path.''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=31398&t=1 |title=Tibetan singer to carry out a coffin march from Bern to Geneva - www.phayul.com |website=www.phayul.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202125331/http://www.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=31398&t=1 |archive-date=2014-02-02}} </ref> He walked from the Swiss capital of [[Bern]] to [[Geneva]], dragging a black coffin around to attract attention.  Arriving on 8 July, he performed with some 13 more musicians, amongst them renowned Swiss band [[The Young Gods]] whose singer ''Franz Treichler'' had strongly supported the artist's action and had organized the performance on ''Place des Nations,'' in front of Geneva UN headquarters.<ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?vkm4NOGfrx-o|title=YouTube}}</ref> It inspired ''Tibetan Warrior'', a documentary film directed by Dodo Hunziker and produced by Urs Schnell, about the quest of Loten Namling from Europe to India where he met with politicians, experts and young radicalists before requesting the Dalai Lama his advice.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tibetanwarrior.com/index.php/29.html|title=Synopsis – TIBETAN WARRIOR – the true story of one man's fight for freedom|access-date=13 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150113185958/http://www.tibetanwarrior.com/index.php/29.html|archive-date=13 January 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In October 2013, Namling was given the Free Spirit Award in [[McLeod Ganj]] for this "Journey of freedom" march.<ref name="tibet.hu-20121026">{{cite web | url=http://www.tibet.hu/tibetpressen/loten-namling-kapta-2012-es-free-spirit-dijat | title=Loten Namling honored with Free Spirit Award 2013/ENG | date=26 October 2013 | publisher=.hu | accessdate=2 December 2013 }}</ref>

==Discography==
* ''Songs of Narcissism'' (1999)
* ''Black Crane'' (2001)

==References==
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==External links==
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*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoemkvcM0 song, by Namling]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?vgXZoWnltPJY Rapper Curse feat. Loten Namling, 2012-05-26]
*[http://freespiritfestival.com/awards/2012-loten_namling.html Spirit Award 2012: Loten Namling]
*[http://loten-namling.blogspot.in/ Loten Namling at Blogspot]

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