Tibetan Buddhist Rites from the Monasteries of Bhutan, by Recorded by John Levy in 1971

Tibetan Buddhist Rites from the Monasteries of Bhutan

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1.	Part 1: Rituals Of The Drukpa Order From Thimphu And Punakha : In Praise Of Genyen 05:40	buy track
2.	Offering Of Golden Drink 01:22	buy track
3.	Exhortation To The Guardian Goddess Of Long Life 05:07	buy track
4.	Long Trumpets, 'Throat Ornament' 01:35	buy track
5.	Long Trumpets, 'Two Notes Prolonged' 00:45	buy track
6.	Invitation To Gonpo 03:05	buy track
7.	Petition To Chakchen 04:23	buy track
8.	Invoking Tshetro's Blessings 03:04	buy track
9.	Supplication To The Buddhas 03:57	buy track
10.	Aspiration To Be Reborn In The Western Paradise 01:03	buy track
11.	Petition To Dramar 01:16	buy track
12.	Prayer For Lama's Long Life 01:14	buy track
13.	Large 'Mani-Wheel', With Mantra 01:49	buy track
14.	Rite To Cure Disease, Chanted By Nuns 01:37	buy track
15.	Tibetan Shawm 03:06	buy track
16.	Long Trumpets, Auspicious Ending 01:37	buy track
17.	Peling Shachham, Deer Dance 1 03:23	buy track
18.	Peling Shachham, Deer Dance 2 02:39	buy track
19.	Lama Norbu Guamtsho 02:57	buy track
20.	Part 2 : Sacred Dances And Rituals Of The Nyingmapa And Drukpa Orders From Nyimalung And Tongsa : Deer Dance 03:52	buy track
21.	The Drum Dance Of Dramitse 02:30	buy track
22.	Lama Norbu Gyamtseo, Lit. Jewel Ocean Guru 1 02:30	buy track
23.	Lama Norbu Gyamtseo, Lit. Jewel Ocean Guru 2 09:06	buy track
24.	Lama Norbu Gyamtseo, Lit. Jewel Ocean Guru 3 05:26	buy track
25.	Entreaty To The Three Buddha-Bodies 06:38	buy track
26.	Invitation To Padma Sambhava 06:32	buy track
27.	Rise Up, Padma 05:01	buy track
28.	Words Of Prayer 02:49	buy track
29.	Tibetan Shawms 02:19	buy track
30.	Part 3 : Temple Rituals And Public Ceremonies : Myule Drelwa, Calling Down Of Deities To Subjugate Evil Spirit; And Kulwa, Its Death, Stabbed By Black Hat 10:24	buy track
31.	Part Of Junbeb, The Coming / Down Of Grace 03:16	buy track
32.	Monks In Procession Playing Portable Instruments Followed By Chanting Of The Heart-Drop Teaching 05:26	buy track
33.	Drammyen Choshe, Song Of Offering, With Lute (Dramnyen) Lute Solo, Followed By Chorus, In A Praise Of Sons Of Buddha 03:58	buy track
34.	Dramnyen Choshe, Chorus Only, Song In Praise Of Chinese Silk 01:29	buy track
35.	Monks, A Clown, Crowds And Instruments 1 02:13	buy track
36.	Monks, A Clown, Crowds And Instruments 2 02:12	buy track
37.	Monks, A Clown, Crowds And Instruments 3 02:09	buy track
38.	End Of Festival, With Temple Belle, And Drums And Trumpets 02:48	buy track
39.	Wandering Ascetic 04:46	buy track
40.	(Manip) Chanting A Milarepa Poem And A Mantra 00:24	buy track
41.	Cymbals (Silnyen) Played Solo 00:53	buy track
42.	Cross-Flute (Zurlim), Folk-Song From E. Bhutan 02:19	buy track
43.	Another Manip Chanting Milarepa Poem 02:43	buy track
44.	First Manip As Story-Teller 01:46	buy track

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More than 140 minutes of the most powerful
Tibetan music ever recorded. Mythic recordings
by John Levy.

John Levy, an Englishman in Bhutan, early seventies. Released by Lyrichord in the mid-'70s, all the people who have listen to these vinyls know that there isn't something more powerful, more prodigious and pure than them. John Levy was a London ethnomusicologist who took refuge in Tibetan Buddhism. So he had all the possibilities to record - with his Nagra stereo - all the rituals (even the most sacred). We can say that what is discovered here is unique and far beyond all that was done after that. All the material is fully remastered, and we propose the Levy's collection divided into two volumes: one of rituals and chanting (SR222, 2005) and one of instrumentals and folk music (SR230, 2005).

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released August 1, 2020

The great power of the rituals of the Drupka and Nyingmapa Order. On the first volume, a double cd with extented notes, Rituals of the Drupka Order, the primary instrument is the long golden trumpet, along with various drums and percussion and a deep droning bass. Rather than soothingly meditative, the music can be a bit dissonant to Western ears. Chanted and played by 76 lamas and monks with long trumpets, shawms, cymbals, drums and other Tibetan instruments in sacred temples. Invited by the King of Bhutan, Levy was afforded every facility for recording monastic music in the main dzongs (great fort-like monasteries) of the Nyingmapa Order. The ethereal polytonal throat chanting, the long trumpets, shawms and percussion instruments, the processional music and spectacular mask dances, Tibetan and Bhutanese secular songs and poems, all reproduced with incredible sonic fidelity. A truly remarkable collection, with extensive liner notes, photographs, and musical illustrations by John Levy.

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Record and production company managed by Guy Marc Hinant and Fred Walheer - releasing records in Electronics/ Experimental/ Unclassical/ Drone/ Noise/ Concrete/ Spoken Words/ Rare recordings/ Rituals genres.

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