In the 1960s Morup Namgyal sparked a cultural movement that would bring about profound change in his homeland of Ladakh.  It was a movement built on education, tradition, and preservation.  What Morup could not imagine at that time was that he would ultimately embrace modernization.
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Through the intimate interactions of three generations of the Namgyal family, The Song Collector explores the uneasy relationship between culture and development and ultimately offers a new vision, inspired by the Buddhist concept of the ‘middle path’, that seeks to find a lasting coexistence between tradition and modernization.