Various – Tibetan Buddhist Rites From The Monasteries Of Bhutan Volume 1: Rituals Of The Drukpa Order From Thimpu And Punakha, Folk Traditional Music Album Compilation

Various – Tibetan Buddhist Rites From The Monasteries Of Bhutan Volume 1: Rituals Of The Drukpa Order From Thimpu And Punakha, Folk Traditional Music Album Compilation

Label: Lyrichord – LYRCD 7255
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: Jan 18, 1993
Genre: Folk, World, & Country

Tracklist

1 In Praise Of Genyen
2 Offering Of ”Golden Drink”
3 Exhortation To The Guardian Goddess Of Long Life
4 Long Trumpets, ”Throat Ornament”
5 Long Trumpet, ”Two Notes Prolongued”
6 Invitation To Gongpo
7 Petition To Chakchen
8 Invoking Tshetro’s Blessings
9 Supplication To The Buddhas
10 Aspiration To Be Reborn In The Western Paradise
11 Petition To Dramar
12 Prayer For Lama’s Long Life
13 Large ‘Mani-wheel’, With Mantra
14 Rite To Cure Disease, Chanted By Nuns
15 Rite To Cure Disease, Chanted By Nuns
16 Rite To Cure Disease, Chanted By Nuns
17 ‘Tibetan Shawm’, Processional Music
18 Processional Music For Shawms And Percussion
19 Long Trumpets, ”Auspicious Ending”

Recorded By – John Lev

Vol. 1 of a four-volume set, each available individually and collected together in one boxset.

Re-release on CD of the recordings originally made by John Levy in 1971.

“Volume One contains examples of tunes most enjoyed by the monks and nuns of the Drukpa Order, as well as the deep ethereal monotone chants most associated with Tibetan Buddhism. Long trumpets are played in the high monasteries and there are examples of processional music performed on shawms and percussion instruments.” – from the back inlay.

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