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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.
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.
Tibetan Freedom Concert is a live album by various artists, recorded at the 1997 Tibetan freedom concert held in New York City to support Tibetan independence. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was recorded and produced by Pat McCarthy and Sylvia Massy , and mixed in New York City at Greene Street Studios.
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.
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Written by Trijang Rinpoche around 1950, a tutor of the 14th Dalai Lama, the lyrics focus on the radiance of the Gautama Buddha. [2]The melody is said to be based on a very old piece of Tibetan sacred music, and some of its elements are also found in other Tibetan songs such as that of Mimang Langlu, a song of the 1959 Tibetan uprising.
Aku Pema (Tibetan: ཨ་ཁུ་པདྨ་, Wylie: a khu pad ma; Amdo Tibetan [akʰɯ panma]) is a Tibetan song, written by the Tibetan singer Palgon (Wylie: dpal mgon, Amdo Tibetan [χʷalɡon]). It is considered [by whom?] to be calling for the Dalai Lama to return, but this is indirect. At no point during the song do the lyrics mention ...
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