Niu Zhihong (born July 25, 1963), better known by her stage name Li Na, is a Chinese folk singer that gained particular popularity in the late 1980s and the 1990s China for singing many theme songs of highly-popular TV series, such as '' Kewang'' (1990). Earlier in her career she was a singer in

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is "Qingzang Gaoyuan" (青藏高原, "Tibetan Plateau"), theme song of the 1994 TV series ''Heaven Road'' (). In 1997 she became a Buddhist nun at

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Changsheng (释昌圣; "Master Changsheng"). Since then she has released several albums on Buddhist music. She currently resides in the

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* "Pop sensation Li Na became a Buddhist nun in 1997, purportedly as a result of a traumatic romantic breakup, and immediately thereafter released a hugely popular CD of Buddhist chant. This CD features..." {{DEFAULTSORT:Li, Na Chinese folk singers Buddhist music 1963 births Chinese Buddhist nuns Living people 20th-century Buddhist nuns 21st-century Buddhist nuns 20th-century Chinese actresses 20th-century Chinese women singers Singers from Henan Henan opera actresses Actresses from Zhengzhou