The Sounds of Enlightenment

During the course of the past decade the lamas of Drepung Loseling Monastery have undertaken half a dozen tours of North America and Europe to perform their ancient sacred rituals for world peace and healing. Numerous recordings of their unique music have been made. We are proud to offer these in our catalog.

Tibetan Sacred Temple Music - Shining Star Productions, Calif.

A selection of traditional pieces of Tibetan temple music performed by eight monks of Drepung Loseling, this recording combines the multiphonic singing heard in Loseling's central temple with the instrumental styles performed in its Gonkang chapels. Playing twelve-foot horns, trumpets, drums, cymbals and bells, the lamas display the richness and depth of the Tibetan musical legacy. The recording achieved the top 25 list on the New Age charts in the US, and hit number one on these charts in Canada. With sleeve notes by Glenn H. Mullin. Seven pieces; total recording time 52:71 min.

		CD-4300  CD - Tibetan Sacred Temple Music $15.00   Order  TP-1300  Tape - Tibetan Sacred Temple Music  $10.00   Order

Sacred Tibetan Chants - The Music & Arts Program of America Inc.

Ten monks from Drepung Loseling perform the most famous pieces from the Monlam Chenmo, or Great Prayer Festival. Celebrated for the first two weeks of every new year and presided over by Drepung, this festival was a celebration of the miraculous powers of the enlightenment experience. The festival was purely vocal, with the monks singing in the multiphonic technique for which the Tibetan lamas have become so renowned. Each monk reshapes the muscles of the vocal chamber transforming it into a natural amplifier of the overtones he sings, thus creating the effect of "singing in chords." Sleeve notes by Glenn H. Mullin and Ven. Damdul Namgyal. Five pieces; total time 66:03 min.

		CD-4200    CD - Sacred Tibetan Chants  $15.00   Order  TP-1200  Tape - Sacred Tibetan Chants  $10.00   Order

Lama Chöpa - A Buddhist Tantric Celebration

The Lama Chöpa is is perhaps the singularly most popular piece of sacred music Central Asia. Many monks and nuns use it as a daily chanting in their meditations; whole monasteries perform it communally on the tenth and twenty-fifth days of every month; and as a practice for special occasions, it is often used as a piece to be chanted at the time of the death of a family member or loved one. Today the Lama Chöpa is even more popular than ever, serving as a symbol of the endangered Tibetan civilization. Five pieces; total time 64:13 min.

		CD-4400     CD - Lama Chopa  A Buddhist Tantric Celebration  $15.00  Order  TP-1400    Tape - Lama Chopa  A Buddhist Tantric Celebration  $10.00 Order

Compassion - Millenia Music

Compassion CD (Millenia Music), featuring a Special Message from His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama, the voice of Thomas Merton, the famed multiphonic singers of the Drepung Loseling Monastery, the Abbey of Gethsemani Schola, and the musicians of Millenia Music. Compassion celebrates the coming together of humanity and was inspired by the historic Gethsemani Encounter at the Abbey of Gethsemani in 1996 attended by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and world leaders from the eastern and western monastic traditions. Compassion was recorded and filmed in the Star Chamber of Mammoth Cave, the Abbey of Gethsemani, Furnace Mountain Zen Temple, the Interreligious Vigil for World Peace, Saint Paul's Chapel, and the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine. Produced by Prince Charles Award winner Michael Fitzpatrick

		This special edition CD includes 82 pages containing colorful photos and verses from the historic encounters between the East and the West. CD-4500    CD - Compassion  $25.00   Order