[a] The album was inspired by New Zealand musician and Buddhist Junelle Kunin, who in 2015 proposed an album fusing music with mantras and chants.

[5][6] Kunin was turned down when she wrote to The Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama about her idea, but on a trip to India she handed a letter to an assistant of the Dalai Lama.

Her idea was met more positively in person, as Kunin described the Dalai Lama agreeing that "music can help people in a way that he can't".

[6] She and her husband, Abraham Kunin, both contributed to the album over the next five years.

The messages couldn't be more poignant for our current social climate and needs as humanity.".