Tibetan pop stars lyrics12/9/2023 ![]() Tibetan "street songs" were a traditional form of expression particularly popular as a means of political and other commentary in a country that was previously without newspapers or other means of mass communication. Vividly illustrated Buddhist thangka paintings depicted the narrative and helped the audience understand what was essentially a teaching. The songs were performed by wandering storytellers, who travelled from village to village, drawing on their own often humble origins to relate to people from all backgrounds. The Lama Mani tradition – the telling of Buddhist parables through song - dates back to the 12th century. Although Tibetan religious music can appear quite separate from the major traditions that emerged in Indian music, some of the musical instruments actually descend from Indian monastic and tantric Buddhist contexts, including, for example, the dril-bu hand- bell, the characteristic hour-glass drums called damaru, and the thighbone trumpet ( kangling), as used in the practice of chöd. The assiduous adoption and evolution of Indian Buddhist traditions and culture in Tibet between the 12th and mid-20th centuries – in a period when Buddhism had disappeared from most of the Indian subcontinent - allowed the Tibetans to perpetuate musical practices from India that would otherwise have been lost, and to develop them in distinctive ways. It has also been suggested that the landscape – and in particular the resonances of caves, with their natural percussive sounding stones - exerted a formative influence on the overtone singing found in Tibetan Buddhist chant (and plausibly also in prehistoric shamanic invocations), which is produced by artful moulding of the oral cavity. It has been suggested that Tibetan religious music may have been strongly influenced by West-Asian musics, including those of pre-Muslim Persia (and perhaps even of Byzantium). Western research into the history of Tibetan music has often focused more on religious than secular musics. The new-age ' singing bowl' music marketed in the West as 'Tibetan music' is of 1970s US origin. ![]() The religious music of Tibet reflects the profound influence of Tibetan Buddhism on the culture. The music of Tibet reflects the cultural heritage of the trans-Himalayan region centered in Tibet, but also known wherever ethnic Tibetan groups are found in Nepal, Bhutan, India and further abroad. Monks playing dungchen, Tibetan long trumpets, from the roof of the Medical College, Lhasa, 1938 Street musician playing a dramyin, Shigatse, Tibet, 1993 I obey, an average, law~~.For Album of Chanting by the Gyuto Monks, see Music of Tibet (album). ![]() ![]() Waiting on you is too hard! The reason I haven't, written back is because, I'm doing all that bad sh**, I was. Nobody deserves you, the way, that I do~~ -and, Nobody deserves you, the way, that I do- Come home!. I'm gonna be creepin' on you so hard! -You're, Seducin' Tibetan POP STARS -and, Wreckin' motor-cars.-Ī stranger in India~! Doing okay so far. I'll be living kinder, -I'll, Found my place as a. Why is everything so expensive? Maybe in. I'm gonna be creepin' on you so hard! You're, seducin' Tibetan pop stars -and, Wreckin' motor-cars. Nobody is asking me: "What about your other?" If they did, I'd tell'em: What's with all this swamp? All I'm passin' are hospitals and space-camps. A seven fingered man, His three sleepless wives all. With, simple demands? They meet their fiancés- Cherry picking, out in Canada.
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