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Pasang Dolma tours Japan

TOKYO, Japan, 12 November 2006 Pasang Dolma is currently touring Japan to perform in concerts with Toshi Kuga. They will perform until mid-November, in about 15 concerts all over Japan.

They have named their tour Hagoromo (flying scarf). Toshi Kuga believes that Dolma's beautiful voice would make the Japanese audience purify their minds.

Hagoromo is well known by Japanese people as one of their mythological stories. It is about a heavenly maiden who landed on a white beach. She lost her scarf while enjoying the beauty of the beach. And so she was unable to fly back to heaven. It turned out that a man from the nearby village had stolen the scarf which the maiden had hung in the tree while sleeping.

Earlier the man had secretly observed how beautiful the maiden was, and how wonderfully she sang.

Mr Kuga wonders what if such a heavenly maiden really exists? And that if she does, then perhaps her voice would be like that of Pasang Dolma. Dolma had lost the use of her left leg as a result of polio at the age of 3. Her handicap held her back from many opportunities, just as the maiden had been held back from returning to heaven due to the loss of her scarf.

Most of these concerts are to raise funds for, and awareness of the Tibetan refugee children.

They will be performing in some of the famous temples in Japan, and on some popular TV and radio programmes.

Mr Toshi Kuga feels that he is capable of returning the flying scarf to Pasang Dolma and aiding her return to heaven.