[1][2][3] It was her first album to be released in the United States; she had broken through to American audiences after playing the 1997 Lilith Fair and appearing on the soundtrack to Seven Years in Tibet.

[13] The Independent determined that, "while its themes—loneliness, hope, compassion and resolve—remain constant, it's a surprisingly experimental effort, mixing guitars, violins, drones and electronics in with Yungchen Lhamo's ethereal vocals.

"[19] JazzTimes wrote: "The project's best moments have to do with her voice, plaintive and glorious, as with the thickly layered vocal matrix of 'Ngak Pai Metog' and the melancholic enigma of her swooping lines in 'Dream'.

"[20] The Courier-Mail concluded that "cynics who don't understand what the fascination in the West with Tibet is all about should close their eyes and listen to Yungchen Lhamo... She has a voice that is straight from heaven.

"[22] The Los Angeles Daily News opined that "Lhamo's voice is as clear and cool as glacial ice, as quiet and lonely as a shepherd in a mountainside meadow.