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There is a museum dedicated to intricate yak butter sculptures of Buddhist deities in dazzling colors, and along the monastery’s periphery, worshippers walk the inner kora—the world’s longest path of prayer wheels at 3.5 kilometers.
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Liam Freeman, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2024
For the first two bars of the song, Ando is playing this tune on the kora.
—Isabel Ling, Vulture, 28 June 2024
The kora, a mix of a harp and lute, has been a fixture of classical West African music for centuries.
—Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
Senegalese traditionalists were equally skeptical, with several averring that a kora with tuning pegs wasn’t a kora at all.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022
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Liam Freeman, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2024
For the first two bars of the song, Ando is playing this tune on the kora.
—Isabel Ling, Vulture, 28 June 2024
The kora, a mix of a harp and lute, has been a fixture of classical West African music for centuries.
—Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
Senegalese traditionalists were equally skeptical, with several averring that a kora with tuning pegs wasn’t a kora at all.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022
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“Kora.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kora. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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