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Familiarity with Tuvan throat singing or Zen liturgical chanting may help listeners apprehend the primordial vocal resonance of the Tibetan Gyuto Monks Tantric Choir. Yet this is not to equate such diverse traditions, which naturally reflect distinct cultural and historical contexts. The Gyuto monks trace their own origins to Lama Tsongkhapa, who founded the eastern Tibetan Gelugpa lineage of the Dalai Lama. They are now based in the 600-year-old monastery that
relocated in Dharamsala, India when the Dalai Lama fled Chinese rule of Tibet in 1959. An Indian recording carried to the United States and
broadcast in northern California in 1969 captured Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart's attention, and he quickly brought the monks to the Bay Area to record them. Nearly four decades later, Hart invited them into the studio for the fourth time, producing an overdubbed recording whose vocal discipline, spiritual power, and aesthetic beauty are manifest.
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