TSUM Tibetan Buddhist Chants for the Happiness of All Beings

Tsum, a community in the remote Himalayan borderlands of Nepal, is considered a ‘Beyul’, or enchanted valley, in Tibetan tradition. The Tibetan nuns of the Tsum Rachen Nunnery situated in this magical place, are women who have devoted their lives to the contemplation of compassion and emptiness, and the chants on this CD embody their strong wish for the ultimate happiness of all sentient beings everywhere. Drawn from three different pujas, or meditations in sound, (Guru Rinpoche, Vajrayogini and Amitabha), the chants are unadorned and may sound raw and primitive on first listening. Repeated hearing reveals subtle ornamentation and pitch changes serving to help the listener become calm, reflective, and hopefully farther along the road to achieving what HH Dalai Lama calls “the good heart”.

Read more on the Tsum Valley and Rachen Nunnery.
http://kopanmonastery.com/about-kopan/affiliated-communities/tsum-monastic-communities