Artist : Bokar Rimpoche
Title : Sacred Chants and Tibetan Rituals from the Monastery Of Mirik
Genre : Ethnic
Year : 2008
Date : 02/2008
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 13
Label : Sub Rosa SR264
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 60:12 min
Size : 74,5 MB
Tracklist:
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01.mountain soundscape (himalaya) 00:37
02.taking refuge by lama tcheupel 02:00
(monk at the monastery of mirik)
03.excerpt from 'the hundred thousand 02:17
songs of milarepa'
04.four-voice song- 'calling the lama 12:41
from afar'
05.tibetan bowls 01:40
06.the tsok offering 06:51
(excerpt from the songs of immortality)
07.teachings on meditation 01:27
(excerpt from 'the hundred thousand son
08.teachings on meditation (film excerpt) 00:55
09.praise mantra for milarepa 02:25
10.dedication of the mahamudra meditation 01:13
11.mahakala ceremony 25:30
12.teachings on meditation (film excerpt) 01:16
13.a river in the mirik forest 01:20
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60:12 min
This album was recorded in Mirik Monastery, situated in the
north east of India, with the collaboration of Bokar Rimpoche
a master of Tibetan Buddhism and meditation.
The sounds on the disc correspond to the film Bokar Rimpoche:
Maitre De Meditation, both the film and album having been edited
by Guy Maezelle, who has captured the sacred chants and ritual
music of the monks at Mirik for posterity. Presumably it's a pretty
rare privilege to be given this kind of access to the routines and
spiritual life of a monastery, and it's especially revelatory listening
to the twenty-five minute 'Mahakala Ceremony' towards the end of
the disc, which features mass chanting and the use of a variety
of horn and percussion-based musical instruments.
You wouldn't necessarily expect it, but for a Buddhist monastery it
all sounds a bit intense at times.
This being Sub Rosa, there's always a bit of time dedicated to more
abstract, unusual sound matter as well. In addition to some gorgeous
Tibetan bowl drones you'll find environmental recordings on here:
the disc begins with a brief mountain soundscape, capturing a scene
in the Himalayas, and concludes with the hushed babble and birdsong
of life by a river in the Mirik forest.
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