Artist	Song
Veet Vichara & Premanjali	Om Mani Padme Hum
from Secret Sounds (2006)
Malgudi Shuba	Buddhavandana
from Ancient Buddha Chants (2006)
Buddhist Chi Meditation	Om Chanting With Tibetan Monks
from Om Chanting - Tibeten Monks Singing Bell Singing Bowl and Magical Sounds of Nature (2009)
Gelugpa Order	A Buddhist Prayer
from Tibetan Ritual Music (1991)
Jean-Philippe Rykiel & Lama Gyurme	The Mantra of Padmasambhava
from The Lama's Chants: Songs of Awakening and Roads of Blessings (2009)
Choying Drolma & Steve Tibbetts	Song of Realization
from Selwa (2007)
Malgudi Shuba	Dhammavandana
from Ancient Buddha Chants (2006)
Lama Tenzin Priyadarshi	Mantra of Bhaishajyaguru
from Revival - Sanskrit Buddhist Chants (2008)
Buddha Nation	The Five Precepts
from Buddha Chill, Vol. 1 (2008)
Lama Surya Das & Steven Halpern	The Jewel In the Lotus
from Chants to Awaken the Buddhist Heart (2000)
Lama Tenzin Priyadarshi	100 Syllable Mantra of Vajrasattva
from Revival - Sanskrit Buddhist Chants (2008)
Lama Tashi	Heart Sutra
from Tibetian Master Chants (2004)
Shi-Tennoji Temple Chanting Group	Shithi-Bongosan
from Shomyo - Buddhist Liturgical Chant (1997)
Buddhist Monks of Maitri Vihar Monastery & The Singing Nuns At Chuchikjall	Offering the Mandala to Compassion
from 7 Hundred Years of Music In Tibet - Mantras & Chants of the Dalai Lama (Remastered) (2008)
Eight Lamas From Drepung	Invoking the Spirit of KindnessThrough Sound
from Tibetan Sacred Temple Music (1988)
Dip Tse Chong Ling Monastery	Sosol-Prayers of Forgiveness
from Tibetan Mysteries (2004)
Jean-Philippe Rykiel & Lama Gyurme	Hope for Enlightenment
from The Lama's Chants: Songs of Awakening and Roads of Blessings (2009)

Comment:

Whether you've read Hermann Hesse's [i]Siddhartha[/i] in college or heard Alan Watts' lectures on Zen or seen a blissful, full-bellied statue of the Enlightened One in a museum or a shrine, you [i]really[/i] haven't begun to experience the Buddhist faith's profound power until you've heard its music. We'll start off in Myanmar with Baddanta Visuta Maha Gantha Vacaka Pandita, whose chant "Tisarana Vandana (The Three Refuges and Adorations)" crosses the bridge between ancient Gregorian chant and the African call-and-response folk singing that evolved into both gospel and blues. In an almost otherworldly sonic fusion of Tuvan throat singing and the rumble of a didgeridoo, Tibetan monk Lama Tashi — who's performed with the likes of Michael Stipe and Sheryl Crow — demonstrates a [i]very[/i] different chanting style in "Heart Sutra." And if your tastes move to a more modern groove, Buddha Nation quietly inhabits the space between classical reverie and ambient dream pop with their hypnotically placid "The Five Precepts." From Jean-Philippe Rykiel & Lama Gyurme to Eight Lamas From Drepung, we've got Buddhism's meditative chants, spiritual songs, and instrumental treasures from Tibet, Japan, Myanmar, China, and beyond . . . even France.

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