This post’s subtitle owes an apology to Wendy Carlos.
(Wendy, who was originally named Walter, is most famous for her 1968 LP “Switched-on Bach”).
This post includes a musical bonus; like the featured image, it involves Tibetan Buddhism…but not J.S. Bach.
The candid photo is copyright Doug Spencer, taken on the main street of a small town on the Tibetan Plateau, Qinghai, China, at 11.37 am on 12 October 2019.
Musical bonus:
Religiously-connected East-West “fusion”/“World Music” includes rather too many schlocky, tedious, unsubtle music recordings.
There are, however, a few gems.
They include the two album collaborations by Steve Tibbetts and Choying Drolma.
He is an American guitarist/composer from Minneapolis.
Choying Drolma lives in a Buddhist nunnery, high above the Kathmandu Valley; she is Nepalese, of Tibetan ancestry.
This beautiful piece is from their second album,“Selwa”, issued in 2004: