A prominent Tibetan singer/songwriter living in exile in the San Francisco Bay Area, Techung is the childhood nickname for Tashi Dhondup Sharzur; one of the key keepers of traditional Tibetan musical traditions.

Growing up in India due to the occupancy of Communist China in his homeland, Techung was left with little choice in his education but to be enrolled into the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts, from a family with no artistic background. Here he studied all aspects of the Tibetan pe...