✨Verse to Music #5✨

Our fifth KVP Verse to Music session was a vibrant creative celebration where Dharma verse met contemporary artistic and musical expression. Musicians and artists from around the world came together to reimagine two invocations to Guru Rinpoche, Padmasambhava—the extraordinary tantric master who brought Vajrayana to Tibet.

Since Guru Rinpoche Day coincided with Halloween, the event became a spirited themed celebration of his powerful wrathful form, Tötreng Tsal—whose garland of skulls symbolizes the liberation of all sentient beings from saṃsāra. 💀

The session featured a rich discussion with participating musicians and special guest appearances by Yantra de Vilder (a composer and sound artist specializing in film, TV, dance, and theatre), Cy Gorman (a sound designer, researcher, educator, and creative technologist), and Michaela Burger (an actress, singer, and writer, and recipient of a Frank Ford award). Other participating musicians include multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Yeshe Reiners, french singer-songwriter-producer & DJ jasmïn, and our own in-house translator and Padmaverse co-founder Christian Bernert.