7th Oct 2011 8:00pm
Sallis Benney Theatre
A taste of Tibetan monastic culture
Eight Tibetan monks from Tashi Lhunpo Monastery in India offer a dramatic presentation of their unique sacred dances, music and prayers, with colourful traditional costumes and ceremonial masks.
Tickets £15 / £12 concessions. http://www.worldsacredmusic.org
The Tibetan Monks of Tashi Lhunpo Monastery return to Brighton to offer a taste of Tibetan monastic culture, with performances of dramatic masked dance, sacred Tibetan chant and ritual Buddhist music.
The sacred world of Tibet is filled with the chanting of Buddhist text, the recitation of mantras, the ringing of bells, the clash of cymbals, the booming of the great long horns and the beating of drums. Eight Tibetan monks from Tashi Lhunpo Monastery in India offer a dramatic presentation of their unique sacred dances, music and prayers, with colourful traditional costumes and ceremonial masks.
The performance offers a rare opportunity to witness a unique and endangered culture.
"A window of time onto a magical universe of reincarnation and release" The Independent
"...majestic and atmospheric..." Songlines
"A psychedelic whirl of chanting, dancing, drums, cymbals and processions" The Times
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