Tibet: Ritual music and Chants of the Gelug Tradition

The ritual music of the Tibetan monks of the Sera Jé Monastery is the leitmotif of this spiritual journey through Tibetan culture.

The 96-page hardcover CD Book features exceptional photographs of Tibet and the Sera Monastery prior to its destruction in 1959, and gives an overview of Tibetan culture (Buddhism, history and the present-day scenario) and ritual Tibetan music.

The CD presents some of the principal rituals and is a colorful pageant invoking a pantheon of wrathful and peaceful deities, guardians, spirits, and realized masters of their lineage.
Chanting, horns, drums and cymbals combine to create a profound meditative, esoteric experience.

TRACKLISTING:

• MONLAM, PRAYER OF THE PATH (0:18)
• KUI.KYON.PAN, THE PRAISE TO TARA (2:00)
• CHAMSIM SHEG TOR-UANG DEMMA, DEDICATION TO THE SPECIAL PATRON OF THE SERA JÉ MONASTERY (9:20)
• GANDEN LA GHIEMA, THE LAND OF THE HUNDRED DEITIES, A PRAYER TO LAMA TZONG KHAPA (3:35)
• DJAM.MON, THE PRAYER OF UNIVERSAL LOVE (2.03)
• LAMRIM DUNDU, THE GRADED PATH (11:37)
• TAMDRIN YANGSA SHAGPA, THE CONFESSION AND PURIFICATION OF SECRET HAYAGRIVA (2:27)
• TAMDRIM YANGSA CHENDREN, THE INVOCATION OF SECRET HAYAGRIVA (2:14)
• TAMDRIM YANGSA SEDJU, VERSES OF THE PATRONAGE OF SECRET HAYAGRIVA (2:54)
• DAG SHEN MA, THE PRACTISE OF EXCHANGING ONESELF WITH OTHERS-EXTENDED VERSION (4:41)
• KUI.KYON.PAN, THE PRAISE OF TARA-ABRIDGED VERSION (2:24)
• DAG SHEN MA, THE PRACTISE OF EXCHANGING ONESELF WITH OTHERS-ABRIDGED VERSION (1:37)
• GEUA NGOUA, DEDICATION OF THE MERITS FROM THE TENTH CHAPTER OF THE BODHISATTVACARYAVATARA (2:23)
• TZEME YONTEN, FINAL DEDICATION TAKEN FROM “WORDS OF TRUTH”, CHANT WRITTEN BY DALAI LAMA, TO CHENREZIG (0:15)