Alternative Press (5/97, p.70) - 5 (out of 5) - "...Seldom do devotion and artistry combine so fortuitously, and CHO should be a must for fans of devotion music and world music generally."
JazzTimes (3/97, p.73) - "...a magical thing, one of the finest and most mind-opening albums that the unique sound-painter Tibbetts has put his mind to....texturally pleasing and wholly entrancing in a way that surprises anyone skeptical of westernized eastern music."
Musician (3/97, p.90) - "...Tibbetts traveled to a small monastery in Nepal and recorded a bunch of nuns singing sacred songs....He's added some of his understated but thoroughly mystical guitar and cello to enhance the atmospherics....you realize your brain is floating somewhere beyond the ozone layer..."
Personnel: Choying Drolma, Delek Yongdzom, Deki Chodron, Sonam Drolma, Kabcho Drolma, Karma Chotso, Lodro Zangmo, Yeshe Zangmo, Tsering Chodron, Rhea Valentine (vocals); Steve Tibbetts (guitar, bouzouki, percussion, disks); Jesse Heffernan, Caton Roberts (violin); Marlies Theobald (Viol di Gamba); Doug Ross (viola); Betsy Meyer, Harriet Irwin (cello); Kestrel Schwaiger (English horn); Greg Wallace (acoustic bass, bata drum); Jim Anton (electric bass); Marc Anderson (percussion).
Includes liner notes by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche.