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Old 03-30-2007, 11:51 AM   #1
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Monk chants are words. Just because they are in Latin and you don't understand what "Pie Iesu Domine, dona eis requiem" means doesn't make them not words.
That's not what these guys are saying...



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Old 03-30-2007, 08:32 PM   #2
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Prayers in Tibetan or Sanskrit or whatever, but they are still prayers. They aren't just toning, although that technique is also used in meditation.

I know a bunch of Native American chants ... some of them are of the "Hey Ya" variety, but others have translatable lyrics.
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Old 03-30-2007, 08:50 PM   #3
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Prayers in Tibetan or Sanskrit or whatever, but they are still prayers. They aren't just toning, although that technique is also used in meditation.
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Beautifully recorded, it features the monks, each singing two and three note polyphonics from the throat, accompanied by occasional percussion and ceremonial horns in trance-inducing meditations to the Buddhist deities Yamantaka and Mahakala
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