Early Life
Choephel was born in Tibet in 1966, but his family fled to India in 1968. In 1992, Choephel graduated from the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts in Dharamsala, India.He later went to the USA to study ethnomusicology through the Fulbright program in 1993 and 1994 at Middlebury College. He returned to Tibet in 1995 to make a film on traditional music and dance.
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