Tibetan Buddhist Rites From The Monasteries Of Bhutan Volume 1: Rituals Of The Drukpa Order (album)

Описание: Tibetan Buddhist Rites From The Monasteries Of Bhutan Volume 1: Rituals Of The Drukpa Order From Thimpu And Punakha

recorded by John Levy 1971

Tracklist


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

about

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.

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.

The recordings also serve to present a majority of the various instruments
used in both monastic and non-monastic song. The music of the shawm, a
double-reeded long horn, the silayen (cymbals), dramnyen (seven-string
long-necked guitar) and zurlim (flute) share space on these albums. Yet,
the most spectacular musical element on this CD comes from the individual
voices and polytonal throat chanting of monks. The most compelling piece,
in praise of the Nyingmapa scholar Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche), is
performed by a manip, or wandering ascetic.

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