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Music of Tibet [1] is a historic recording, made by world religion scholar Huston Smith in 1967. [2] While traveling in India, Smith was staying at the Gyuto Monastery. While listening to the monks chanting, he realized that each monk was producing multiple overtones for each note, creating a chord from a single voice.
Monks playing dungchen, Tibetan long trumpets, from the roof of the Medical College, Lhasa, 1938 Street musician playing a dramyin, Shigatse, Tibet, 1993. The music of Tibet reflects the cultural heritage of the trans-Himalayan region centered in Tibet, but also known wherever ethnic Tibetan groups are found in Nepal, Bhutan, India and further abroad.
The dramyin or dranyen (Tibetan: སྒྲ་སྙན་, Wylie: sgra-snyan; Dzongkha: dramnyen; Chinese: 扎木聂; pinyin: zhamunie) [1] is a traditional Himalayan folk music lute with six strings, used primarily as an accompaniment to singing in the Drukpa Buddhist culture and society in Bhutan, as well as in Tibet, Ladakh, Sikkim and Himalayan West Bengal.
The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep. Snow Lion Publications. ISBN 1-55939-101-4. Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche (2000). Wonders of the Natural Mind. Snow Lion Publications. ISBN 1-55939-142-1. Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche (2002). Healing with Form, Energy, and Light. Snow Lion Publications. ISBN 1-55939-176-6. Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche; Anne Carolyn Klein ...
He Xuntian (simplified Chinese: 何 训 田; traditional Chinese: 何 訓 田; pinyin: Hé Xùntián; born in 1952 in Suining, Sichuan) is a composer and professor of music composition at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
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The film celebrates traditional Tibetan folk music while depicting the past fifty years of Chinese rule in Tibet, including Ngawang's experience as a political prisoner. The film premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, [2] [3] where it won the Special Jury Prize for World Cinema. It opened in theatres on September 24, 2010 in New York City.
[6]: 21, 180 Ordinary people watch cham dances in order to receive a spiritual benefit and merit. [1] The music and choreography of the cham dance are heavily associated with Tibetan Buddhism, however some common features derive directly from the Bön religion. [6]: 32 The Dramyin Cham in particular is a focal point of many modern tsechus.