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Lama Tashi

Tibetan Buddhism · Tibetan Overtone Chant

Tibetan chant master, former principal chant master of Drepung Loseling, who sounds several notes at once in the deep multiphonic voice.

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Lama Tashi

Tibetan chant master, born in 1968 in Arunachal Pradesh, India, and former principal chant master of Drepung Loseling Monastery. He is a master of the deep multiphonic voice in which a single singer sounds several notes at once, has led the Long Life Puja chanting for the Dalai Lama, and in 2006 became the first Buddhist monk nominated for a Grammy as a solo artist, for Tibetan Master Chants. He is president of the Siddhartha Foundation.

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6 min
Music

The Heart Sutra, chanted

The Heart Sutra chanted through in Lama Tashi's multiphonic voice, just under six minutes.

63 min
Music

Chen Dren: an invocation, unbroken for an hour

An hour of rgyud-skad, the deep multiphonic chant in which one voice sounds several notes at once, held as a single invocation.

77 min
Talk

A sound framework for altruistic practice

Lama Tashi teaches for over an hour on how the chanted sound and the intention behind it hold each other up in Tibetan practice, and chants as he goes.

Path

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Tibetan Buddhism

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