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Alexandra David-Neel in 1933 Tibet with a Kangling instrument at her waist. Kangling (Tibetan: རྐང་གླིང་།, Wylie: rkang-gling), literally translated as "leg" (kang) "flute" (ling), is the Tibetan name for a trumpet or horn made out of a human tibia [1] or femur, used in Tibetan Buddhism for various chöd rituals as well as funerals performed by a chöpa.
Nawang Khechog (Tibetan: ངག་དབང་མཁས་མཆོག་, Wylie: Nga-dbang Mkhas-mchog; also known as Nawang Khechong) is a Tibetan flute player and composer. Nawang was born in Tibet , but following the Chinese invasion of 1949/1950, his family moved to India , where Nawang studied meditation and Buddhist philosophy.
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.
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.
In addition to the Chinese dizi, transverse flutes corresponding to the limbe are the bamboo flute limba of the Buryats in Eastern Siberia, the lingbu in Tibetan music and the zur-lim in Bhutan. Lingbu, also known as gling-bu in Tibetan, refers to all Tibetan flute types and in the narrower sense a core gap flute.
Pages in category "Tibetan musical instruments" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D. Damaru;
A typical Tibetan Buddhist ritual orchestra consists of a gyaling, dungchen, kangling, dungkar (conch shells), drillbu (handbells), silnyen (vertical cymbals), and most importantly, chanting. Together, the music creates a state of mind to invite or summon deities.
Acho Namgyal playing piwang in 1937. The chiwang (Dzongkha: སྤྱི་དབང་; Wylie: spyi-dbang) [1] is a type of fiddle played in Bhutan. [2] The chiwang, the lingm (), and the dramyen comprise the basic instrumental inventory for traditional Bhutanese folk music.