{"id":774,"date":"2008-05-09T20:19:12","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T19:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/?p=774"},"modified":"2008-07-15T23:44:08","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T22:44:08","slug":"tibetan-ritual-music-by-lamas-and-monks-lyrichord-records-1962","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/tibetan-ritual-music-by-lamas-and-monks-lyrichord-records-1962\/","title":{"rendered":"Tibetan Ritual Music By Lamas And Monks – Lyrichord Records – 1962"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Offering Of The Savior Gompo \/ Invocation Of Gompo \/ A Buddha Prayer<\/a><\/p>\n

Offering To The Guru \/ Glorification Of The Past Buddha<\/a><\/p>\n

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Four Gelugpa monks blowing ceremonial horns on the roof of Kundeling<\/span> monastery. Two blow extendable trumpets, or radung, the ends of which are supported on ornate gilt trumpet stands decorated with eight auspicious Buddhist emblems and floral motifs. The monks wear yellow hats, maroon robes, brocade holy water bottles and felt and leather boots. Cylindrical Banners, which are auspicious emblems used as roof decoration, are decorated with pearls of wisdom and a trident on the top. The banner in the foreground is especially elaborate.<\/p>\n

Where to start?<\/p>\n

As the title suggests, these field recordings were performed by Monks and Lamas (of the four great orders) for the benefit of Lyrichord Records.\u00a0This New York based\u00a0record label has existed since 1950 and has\u00a0recorded and released\u00a0most (folk)\u00a0music from all over the planet since that time.<\/p>\n

The message inscribed on the paper record label states: ‘exceptional LP records for the discerning listener’, which just about sums it up. I love these kind of small details on old records, it does\u00a0really rock my boat. Love it.<\/p>\n

I decided to upload this record because<\/p>\n

1: That pesky Olympic flame is up Everest right now. The roof of the world.<\/p>\n

2: Some Puppie commentators requested some Tibetan music many months ago now on a separate post, Simon and Pavlik possibly, can not remember…<\/p>\n

3: Early Psychic TV and 23 Skidoo, two of my faves, both lifted most of their\u00a0early sound, right off these kind\u00a0of recordings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

4: After reading the 200 odd horror\u00a0comments re: Campbell Buildings etc, courtesy of various Heretics, and friends of, on the ‘Chris Low Obscure Punk’ post, I thought it would be nice to chill out a tad, and put that,\u00a0injecting nescafe up a vein with a dirty\u00a0needle image, to one side for a while. Urrgghh.<\/p>\n

5: I love a big horn in my music, these recordings are no exception. There are some big old horns on show here.<\/p>\n

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Three partly painted bronzes of Gelugpa lamas in Gautsa Monastery. Behind the statues repeating images of Buddha can be seen on the wall fresco. The images are placed upon wooden chests, which have been painted decoratively. Two shelves can be seen on the right and left side walls of the alcove containing the images. The shelf on the left has a textile cushion on top, whilst that on the right has been highly decorated. A box can be seen in the left hand corner of the alcove with a bowl on top containing khatak or offering scarves. All the images have had white offering scarves draped over their hands. A piece of discoloured cloth can be seen on the extreme right of the image.<\/p>\n

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Monks practising playing radung horns.<\/p>\n

Photos from 1936 British Museum.<\/p>\n

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A formal portrait of the Reting Regent seated on a throne with ritual objects to his right, a painted scroll or thangka, possibly of Heruka, above his head, brocade hangings with a predominantly dragon and cloud pattern on the wall, flowerpots on a carpet with flower motifs on the floor. Directly below the throne, which is approximately a metre high, there is a decorative woven hanging with a crossed thunderbolt or dorje motif in the centre surrounded by ten auspicious symbols and four swastika symbols in the corners.<\/p>\n

Photo 1940 British Museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Offering Of The Savior Gompo \/ Invocation Of Gompo \/ A Buddha Prayer Offering To The Guru \/ Glorification Of The Past Buddha Four Gelugpa monks blowing ceremonial horns on the roof of Kundeling monastery. Two blow extendable trumpets, or radung, the ends of which are supported on ornate gilt trumpet stands decorated with eight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}