Gutteral Monk Chanting

A ceremony of gelug monks with the tibetan deep voice.

Gutteral monk chanting.

The catholic church is majestic not just in the arts but also in music as well no other churches especially outside the catholic church escept the orthodox. The chanting starts at 3 00. Selection of tibetan buddhist meditative chanting vajrayana and mongolian throat singing often used in mongolian folk song. Sometimes other wind instruments join the ensemble too such as the dungchen the famous tibetan long horn.

Tibetan buddhist chanting is a subgenre of throat singing mainly practiced by monks of tibet including qinghai khokhonor province in the tibetan plateau area tibetan monks of nepal bhutan india and various locations in the himalayan region. I learnt how to do the tibetan type of chanting from the chant master at sera je the tibetan buddhist monastic university in exile india and the tuvan throat singing from a performing folk singer at the tumen ekh national song dance ensemble in ulan bator mongolia. Tokyo the music grows gradually. Sometimes the syllables have no definite meaning.

It s the sound that matters. And then the monk begins to chant the heart sutra. Most often the chants hold to the lower pitches possible in throat singing. Dharanis usually are chanted in sanskrit or some approximation of what sanskrit sounds like.

In the west gathas often have been translated into the language of the chanters. The result is a complex sound made of many layers a sound that will both serve you as an excellent noise blocker and meditation aid. Buddhist prayers mantras and the names of the buddhas are sung like this. Throat singing a unique vocalization from three cultures throat singing a guttural style of singing or chanting is one of the world s oldest forms of music.

For those who think the human voice can produce only one note at a time the resonant harmonies of throat singing are surprising. The tibetan monks chanting is also called tibetan throat singing. A gatha is a short verse to be chanted sung or recited.