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Chinese Buddhist music

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Chinese Buddhist music

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Recorded by John Levy in 1963-64 and 1969, in monasteries in Hong Kong and Taiwan

Waking the monks (2:19) -- From morning service (3:17) -- Reciting names of the buddhas, with large bell (2:18) -- Fan-pai : solo chant, two hymns (7:04) -- From morning service (nuns) (4:04) -- Pei-tou litergy [i.e. liturgy] (from the Great Bear liturgy) (4:59) -- Fan-pai : solo chant, from the Hua-yen Tzu-mu liturgy (8:38) -- Shui-lu fa-hux : from the requiem mass (1:26) -- Ching-ming : ceremony at graves of ancestors (2:29; 1:49) -- Ch'ac [i.e. Ch'ao]-tu wang-hun : private requiem mass (2:24; 4:52; 2:22)