Audiences can experience the sacred, traditional music of Tibetan chanting from the Dalai Lama’s world famous Gyuto monks in a one-off collaboration with Gaelic singer and piper Griogair Labhruidh of Ballachulish, as they tour Argyll and Lochaber next month.
Scientists from NASA and MIT have studied the monks and concluded that they can produce the lowest sounds capable of a human being. Their sound has been compared to the resonance of a drum or didgeridoo, and is believed to have a transformative effect on the listener.
Regarded as masters of rites and rituals within Tibetan Buddhism, the Gyuto monks are famous around the world for their mastery of the tantric arts, which includes their especially unique form of deep harmonic chanting, sand mandalas and painting.