Tibetan Sacred Dance [Paperback]

Ellen Pearlman (Author)

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Paperback: 1 pages
Publisher: INNER TRADITIONS INTL (Nov 30 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0892819189
ISBN-13: 978-0892819188
Product Dimensions: 25.8 x 20.4 x 1.6 cm
Shipping Weight: 767 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,975,076 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"The Buddhist search for inner peace pervades almost every aspect of Tibetan life. One facet of that heritage that has received comparatively less attention is Tibet's sacred dance with its vivid depiction of such fundamental themes as the triumph of virtue and the supremacy of truth. This colorful book serves to redress that lapse."

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The first book to explore the significance and symbolism of the sacred and secular ritual dances of Tibetan Buddhism.
*Lavishly illustrated with color and rare historic photographs depicting the dances, costumes, and masks.
*Looks at both sacred (cham) and folk (achi lhamo) forms and their role in the development, practice, and culture of Tibetan Buddhism.

From the time Buddhism entered the mythical land of the snows, Tibetans have expressed their spiritual devotion and celebrated their culture with dance. Only since the diaspora of the Tibetan people have outsiders witnessed these performances, and when they do, no one explains why these dances exist and what they really mean. Ellen Pearlman, who studied with Lobsang Samten, the ritual dance master of the Dalai Lama's Namgyal monastery in India, set out to discover the meaning behind these practices. She found the story of the indigenous shamanistic Bon religion being superseded by Buddhism-a story full of dangerous and illicit liaisons, brilliant visions, secret teachings, betrayals, and unrevealed yogic practices.

Pearlman examines the four lineages that developed sacred cham-the secret ritual dances of Tibet's Buddhist monks-and achi lhamo storytelling folk dance and opera. She describes the mental and physical process of preparing for these dances, the meaning of the iconography of the costumes and masks, the spectrum of accompanying music, and the actual dance steps as recorded in a choreography book dating back to the Fifth Dalai Lama in 1647. Beautiful color photographs from the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts and Pearlman's own images of touring monastic troupes complement the rare historic black-and-white photos from the collections of Sir Charles Bell, chief of the British Mission in Tibet during the life of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama.

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First Sentence
Each year-on the twenty-ninth day of the twefth month of the Tibetan calendar-at Namgyal College in Dharamsala, a small procession of ritual masters, horn blowers, cymbal players, drummers, and a master of ceremonies walk under a canopy through the courtyard. Read the first page

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