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Mama Yogini represents the primordial feminine energy from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. The album is part of Yangjin’s continued effort to lift mankind with music. The pure music flowing out of Yangjin’s nature mind is like nourishing nectar for the soul. What Mama Yogini conveys is an expectation, a message, and a call for the return of feminine energy, one that is warm, spacious, supportive, giving and compassionate. Only such energy can heal our hearts.

The album features a diverse collection of nine songs. Yangjin Lamu teamed up with Josh McGilbery, an African American musician, to bring fresh experience to the ear and the heart with their creative arrangements and a combo of mantras, sutras, contemporary electronic music and hip hop. The Tibetan ballads that Yangjin composed, expansive or gentle, transport listeners into the unique emotional world of the Tibetan people.

Listening to Mama Yogini is like having the purest of waterdrops slowly fill your heart, and as the water droplets begin to pool together, our hearts become purified and true.

From listening to this album, Yangjin Lamu hopes everyone can find the journey home; enjoy the beautiful and powerful music, start a brand new life and awaken the pure and joyful energy that is inside us all.

Divine mother of the universe and all beings,

Presiding over all forms of matter, liquid, fire and air,

Controlling space and time,

Removing obstacles of all kinds.

Mama Yogini is Samantabhadri, the "primordial Mother Buddha from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition who represents the primordial feminine energy. In contrast to the active, competitive, driven and rational masculine energy, the feminine energy is associated with calm, warmth, support and sensitivity. Yangjin Lamu believes that this is an era of the awakening feminine energy.

For thousands of years, the world has been dominated by the masculine energy. With material abundance and technological advances in the past 200 years come overconsumption and greed, which have led to wars, conflicts, environmental damage, and a ravaged nature. The pandemic that has swept the world is the bitter fruit that mankind has to swallow as a result of the imbalances and damage.

Out of her compassion for the earth and mankind, Yangjin called out to Mama Yogini. What the song conveys is an expectation, a message, and a call for the return of feminine energy, which is warm, spacious and healing. It is part of Yangjin’s effort of trying to awaken more women.

Awakening is a lot like a drop of water returning to the ocean, becoming one with the boundless ocean of awareness. Mama Yogini symbolizes that purest waterdrop in every one’s heart. As more waterdrops pool, our hearts will be purified, and the entire planet will be taken care of and healed.

A Green World is a Buddhist song that can help practitioners quiet their minds, stabilize their awareness and lift their energy. The lyrics include the Green Tara prayer and mantra. Green Tara is a green-form female bodhisattva in Tibetan Buddhism. Green represents mother nature and its inexhaustible life energy. Green Tara in Chinese is “Du Mu”. “Du”, or “tide over”, means helping us break free from disturbing emotions and sufferings, whereas “Mu”, or mother, means the mother-like warm and gentle energy. Green Tara helps people do away with fear and become happy.

The contemporary feel of this Buddhist song appeals to men and women, old and young. It cheers people up and makes people dance. Yangjin’s arrangement makes this song more meaningful and relevant to modern people. At a time when the earth is wrecked by frequent natural and man-made disasters, Yangjin hopes that through this song, more people will be inspired to return to nature and protect Mother Earth. She hopes that through music, people can turn inward, clear away disturbing emotions and experience lasting happiness. This is how one can protect mental health and wellbeing. Only when people start to take care of their inner health, adopt a minimalist approach towards life and return to nature can our planet earth be truly protected.

Om

From your sublime abode at the Potala

Appears the green letter TAM

The letter TAM shines and saves all beings

The action-mother of the Buddhas

To you, I pay homage

The gods and demi-gods bow

To your lotus feet, O Tara

You who rescue all who are destitute,

To you, Mother Tara, I pay homage.

Om tare tuttare ture soha

This is a love song that Yangjin wrote for her husband Mark Yuting Chen. It was written at a time when the couple had to live apart. Yangjin was at home making music, while the indisposed husband was in Dali, Yunnan province pursuing his bodhisattva endeavor. Yangjin wrote this song to express her love and longing for her husband far away by the Erhai Lake.

Yangjin used poetic language and typical Tibetan metaphors in her lyrics. She sang about the mountain drizzle, the pine and cypress branches used in smoke offerings back home, and how she, a Tibetan, and her husband of Han ethnicity, wish to build a golden bridge across the strait and meet by Dali Erhai Lake. With lyrics so pure and fine, and a melody so soft and gentle, the song conveys the singer’s love and joy in her heart.

Purify is also a Buddhist song. The lyrics include the Hundred Syllable Vajrasattva Mantra and the short Vajrasattva mantra. The term Vajrasattva is comprised of two words: “vajra” as diamond, which represents the indestructible awareness, and “sattva” as awakened sentient beings. Yangjin added drum beats throughout the song to make it sound contemporary, so that modern practitioners can be more attuned to the energy in the music. When a meditator sings along or dances to the music in a relaxed yet focused manner, his/her deep karma can be cleansed and disturbing emotions can be purified.

This is a song Yangjin wrote for her late music partner and mentor Dhruba Ghosh. Being a multi-Grammy winner, Ghosh was a household name in India and a meditator. Yangjin partnered with Ghosh in many concerts, and shared the commitment of helping people through music.

As Yangjin was working on this Album, news came that Ghosh had died of a heart attack. Yangjin wrote and recorded the song on the 7th day of his death to say final goodbye to a dearest friend in her life. Just as her Tibetan folks who believe in samsara, Yangjin wish that they reunite in the next life.

The song has captured the sadness and Yangjin’s slightly tearful voice. Everyone has to bid farewell to their loved ones at certain point in life. It is our hope that this sentimental song will help mend a broken heart.