Nangma (Tibetan: ; Chinese: 囊玛) is a genre of

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closely related to Toeshey (སྟོད་གཞས་). The word Nangma derives from the

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word ''Naghma'' meaning melody. Both a band and a

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have been named after it. "Nangma" is the name of a four-person, traditional Tibetan band dedicated to these two styles of music.Four veteran artistes to tour US.
Retrieved January 13, 2006. "Nangma" is also the name of a

Lhasa Lhasa (; Lhasa dialect: ; bo, text=ལྷ་ས, translation=Place of Gods) is the urban center of the prefecture-level Lhasa City and the administrative capital of Tibet Autonomous Region in Southwest China. The inner urban area of Lhas ...

which plays this traditional music.Lost horizons of Lhasa
Retrieved January 13, 2006.

References

Bibliography

*Geoffrey Samuel. 1976. 'Songs of Lhasa.' ''Ethnomusicology'', vol.20 no.3, pp. 407–449.

External links

A webpage on the band and the U.S. tour
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