Tibetan Incantations [Import]

Tibetan Incantations (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 27, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Nascente
• ASIN: B00000JB12
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,202 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #2 in Music > World Music > Far East & Asia > Tibet

Track Listings

1. Om Mani Padme Hum

2. Mantra of Avalokiteshvara

3. Om Mani Padme Hum [Alternate Version]

Editorial Reviews

Deep spirituality and compassion are at the heart of Tibetan Buddhism with music and chant an important path to spiritual enlightenment. This compilation features three separate chants - each with its own alluring, powerful and meditative quality.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

52 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not "traditional" but still worthwhile, October 17, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Tibetan Incantations (Audio CD)

I happen to like this CD, but, in fairness to those reviewers who have criticized it (and been given "not helpful" ratings for their comments), it does have to be said that this is not "traditional" Tibetan chanting as is done by monks and nuns in the monasteries. Those who are looking for a more traditional sound would probably prefer recordings by monastic groups such as "The Gyuto Monks" or "The Ganden Jangtse Monastic Choir" (which are excellent, by the way). Having said that, it's also not really true that this CD (Tibetan Incantations) is just "New Age." It consists of authentic Tibetan Buddhist mantras, but chanted to melodies that are really more Chinese than Tibetan (which isn't necessarily bad, since traditional Tibetan chanting doesn't tend to be particularly melodic), and interspersed with Chinese-style instrumentals. (I can't remember for sure, but I think it was recorded by a Taiwanese group.) In any case, a lot of Tibetan lamas seem to like it very much. One lama whom I know recommended to us that we memorize the mantras to these melodies, since (he said) chanting them to the melodies helps to imprint them more deeply on the consciousness. He often plays them in the background at his teachings, and I've heard other lamas do that too. So I think this CD does have its merits despite being different from the styles of chanting that you hear in Buddhist monasteries in India, Nepal and Tibet.

33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The second song, August 22, 2002

By 

Mauro Sanchez (Salt Lake City, Ut United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tibetan Incantations (Audio CD)

I did research about the second song,
It is called "The Short Great Compassionate Heart Dharani"

the words are:

Namo Ratna trayaya. Namah Arya Jnana Sagara. Vairochana, Vyuha Rajaya. Tathagataya Arhate samyaksam buddhaya. Namah Sarva Tathagatebhyah, Arhadbhyah, Samyak sam buddhebhyah.
Namah Arya Avalokitesvaraya Bodhisattvaya Mahasattvaya Mahakarunikaya
Tadyatha
Om
Dhara dhara, dhiri dhiri, dhuru dhuru, itti vatte, Chale Chale, Prachale prachale, Kusume kusume vare, ili mili citi Jvalam,
Apanaye svaha.

Mauro

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars the truth, October 10, 2005

By 

C. Davis - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tibetan Incantations (Audio CD)

There is no reason to put down this disc, if the Dalai Lama himself plays this at his talks, and he is according to his own people the physical manifestation of chenrezig (avaloketishvara) then it is not a pseudo-techno japanese version of tibetan chanting. Om mani padme hung is the most widley practiced chant in the buddhist tradition, and it is used a a vehicle for ending the suffering and to accelerate the liberation of all sentinent beings. No this is not bioctave gutteral tibetan chanting of tibetan monks, this is a recording by "people" who had the heart to chant a mantra for the benifit of all the listeners. Of course they got paid, of course the producer got paid to make the record, who cares, they desreve it. So, if you or I put in a cd of "real" tibetan monks chanting and chant along, do we ruin the originality of the chant and make it new age or watered down because we are westerners? or do we add to the vibration that the mantra is trying to impart to this world of attachment and suffering. I have personall sold hundreds of copies of this cd to people who had never been into any spiritual practice and becasue this was available, they opened there hearts to buddhist practice. what elese do people want? should we beconcerned aobut the "authenticity" of the people who recorded the music or should we be thankfull and feel blessed to be able to listen to this music in the first place?