Browse films, documentaries, conversations and teachings by path and format. 41 videos.
41 videos
A traditional song from her own region, with Joosep Kõrvits accompanying her.
Drukmo Gyal
Riley Lee's full Taplin Auditorium recital, honkyoku and newer pieces, with his own spoken introductions between them.
Riley Lee Music
Her official film of the Great Compassion Mantra, shot around Kathmandu temple courtyards, with the mantra carried in a single unhurried vocal line.
Ani Choying Drolma
A twenty-five minute solo set with her band on a festival stage in Sindh, moving between Tibetan mantra and Nepali song and speaking to the audience between pieces.
Lahooti
Kiku Day performs the honkyoku piece Betsuden Shika no Tone on jinashi shakuhachi.
Kiku Day
Kiku Day performs the Zen honkyoku piece Byakudo on shakuhachi for the European Shakuhachi Society.
European Shakuhachi Society
An hour of rgyud-skad, the deep multiphonic chant in which one voice sounds several notes at once, held as a single invocation.
Lama Tashi - Topic (official release)
A long piece for Tibetan bamboo flute, from the former monk who studied under the Dalai Lama before turning to music.
Nawang Khechog
Om mani padme hum, sung with The Sonic Project Band.
A live performance of Dream Song, posted to Yungchen Lhamo's own YouTube channel.
Yungchen Lhamo (official channel)
A full shakuhachi concert by Kakizakai Kaoru, recorded in Edinburgh.
Markus Guhe
A full recording of the fire puja performed by the Drepung monks on their 2022 tour, at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
Native Media Network
Yungchen Lhamo's complete in-studio session for KEXP, performing several songs live with brief conversation between numbers.
KEXP
A sung doha of Gampopa, the twelfth-century teacher from whom the Kagyu schools descend.
Monks of Palpung Sherab Ling Monastery
Real World Records' official video for Happiness Is…, one of Yungchen Lhamo's best-known songs.
Real World Records
The closing mantra of the Heart Sutra, in a studio recording from her own channel.
The Heart Sutra set to music and filmed at Ikkyu-ji in Kyoto by the Zen priest and singer Kanho Yakushiji.
Kanho Yakushiji
Nine minutes of solo bamboo flute on Schlefer's own channel: the honkyoku Ichijo, from first breath to last.
James Nyoraku Schlefer - Shakuhachi
The chant with which the monks invite the enlightened beings to be present before a ritual begins.
Monks of Gaden Shartse Dokhang
The opening invocation of the Gyuto tantric choir, sung in the overtone chant for which the monastery is known.
The Gyuto Monks Of Tibet
A live performance by Yungchen Lhamo recorded in WNYC's Jerome L. Greene Performance Space.
WNYC
The mantra of the Medicine Buddha, arranged and sung by Kanho Yakushiji.
A ritual sung in the overtone style of the Gaden Shartse monks, in which a single voice sounds more than one note at a time.
Gaden Shartse Monks
One honkyoku played whole, live in Helsinki: Nagashi Reibo, the Kinpu-ryū piece on yearning for the bell, on solo shakuhachi.
The Great Compassion Dharani with strings, filmed at Ikkyu-ji in Kyoto.
Yungchen Lhamo performing the mantra chant Om Mani Padme Hung live in Switzerland, posted to her own channel.
Prayers of request, chanted with cymbals, drum and the long horns that belong to the monastic liturgy.
Tibetan Monks of Gaden Shartse
The seven branch prayer chanted to the red form of Chenrezig, the bodhisattva of compassion.
A complete performance of Tenzin Choegyal's song Snow Lion with Camerata, Queensland's Chamber Orchestra, on his official channel.
Tenzin Choegyal
Kakizakai Kaoru plays Sokkan, one of the honkyoku pieces that came out of the breath practice of the wandering monks.
shakuhachigaku
The official music video for Sound Healing, produced by her label Real World Records.
A song of praise to Milarepa, the yogi and poet whose life story is sung across the Tibetan traditions.
A chant to Tara, the figure who is called on for protection and for the removal of fear.
The Medicine Buddha mantra, chanted by the monks of Gyuto.
Dechen Shak-Dagsay and the Jewel Ensemble sing the twenty-one traditional praises of Tara in full, recorded live in the Kirche Enge in Zurich.
Universal Sounds Switzerland
Imee Ooi sings the Nilakantha Dharani, known as the Great Compassion Mantra, in Sanskrit.
Harvest International Media
Imee Ooi sings the Buddhist Heart Sutra in Mandarin.
Imee Ooi黄慧音
The Heart Sutra chanted through in Lama Tashi's multiphonic voice, just under six minutes.
The Futaiken version of the old honkyoku that follows a pair of cranes through nesting, flight and parting, played on solo shakuhachi.
James Nyoraku Schlefer - Topic (official release)
A live setting of the Vajra Guru mantra for voice and chamber orchestra, from the Call For Peace concert in the Tonhalle St. Gallen.
Flute and drone, played slowly enough that the listening becomes the practice.
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