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TIBETAN BUDDHIST RITES FROM THE MONASTERIES OF BHUTAN
Volume 3: Temple Rituals and Public Ceremonies

This volume is dedicated to His Majesty King Jigme Senge Wangchuk.
Recordings, notes and photographs by John Levy. Detailed notes and more photographs are to be found in the enclosed folder.

“ . . . Of the whole enormous area which was once the spirited domain of Tibetan culture and religion . . .now only Bhutan seems to survive as the one resolute and self-contained representative of a fast disappearing civilization.”

To be heard in this third volume are the child’s voice of a little reincarnated lama, the subjugation of an evil spirit, the impressive sound of monks in procession round an altar (madala), playing the portable monastic instruments, recorded live at the annual festival of a Nyingmapa (Old Order) Monastery; other live recordings at an annual festival of sacred dance in another temple in a remote valley, the monks playing their instrum...