TILOPA plays the Japanese flute called kyotaku, from the Zen Buddhist honkyoku musical tradition. This flute is sometimes called the Zen flute in the USA. Tilopa has studied quite a wide range of different musical instruments since early childhood (recorder flutes, violin, guitar, piano, dillruba, svarmandal, santoor, and so on), but found his real love about 20 years ago when he met with the kyotaku and his flute master Koku Nishimura in Kumamoto, Japan. For those 20+ years, Tilopa has studied traditional honkyoku music with his master Koku sensei, and Koku's son, Koryo Nishimura.

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