The Monks of Sherab Ling Monastery

The Monks of Sherab Ling Monastery: Sacred Tibetan Chant

by C. Michael Bailey
February 25, 2003

Eastern culture often seems far removed from our mostly Western sensibilities. Epistemologically speaking, when the most New Worlders hear the word "chant" in relation to music, we immediately think of Fifth Century Gregorian Chant, so named for the sitting Roman Catholic Pope at the time, Gregory I (590-604).

Presently considered is a cycle of Tibetan Buddhist Chant with which the monks and nuns of the Karma Kagyu Lineage begin their day, and the ritual chant with which ...