[Buddha-l] gorgeous sung version of Heart Sutra

[Dante Rosati]

Well Herr Profezzor Curmudgeon, I have often wondered whilst listening to
Vedic chanting, what early Buddhist chanting on the mainland must have
sounded like, and I assume it probably sounded similar. So I find getting a
Sanskritic chanteuse to render a Buddhist text, (even one badly
backtranslated from Chinese) to be evocative and nostalgic for the days at
Nalanda when we all sat around in a previous life debating the finer points
of shunyata eating mangos and listening to such chanting. Call me
sentimental, or maybe just mental (or certifiable).

Dante

>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:buddha-l-bounces at mailman.swcp.com]On Behalf Of Richard P. Hayes
>Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 5:19 PM
>To: Buddhist discussion forum
>Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] gorgeous sung version of Heart Sutra
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>
>On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 16:05 +0100, Joy Vriens wrote:
>
>> > https://www.dmes.org/dmu/audiofiles/Kirtan04-HS.mp3
>>
>> Very nice indeed. Thank you for posting the link.
>
>Yes, thanks for posting it. It's a fascinating example of the perfection
>of silliness.
>Who ever got the idea to put the Heart Sutra to music (with a Bengali
>accent, yet)? The Heart Sutra is not even in verse. It's not even
>written in ornamented prose. Some say it wasn't even written in Sanskrit
>but was translated into rather ugly Sanskrit from Chinese.
>
>Singing the Heart Sutra makes about as much sense as singing a recipe
>for making chocolate chip cookies, or chanting instructions for putting
>together a garden shed. Sure, it can be done, but at what cost to our
>aesthetic sensibilities?
>
>--
>Richard
>
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