Sound of Vultures' Wings

List of Illustrations
Note on Terminology
Note on the Meaning of the Title
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Approaching Choed Ritual Studies

Part I: Choed Ritual Practice in Context

1 Ritual Efficacy: Musical Performance in Choed Practice

2. Musical Character of the Choed Genre

Part II: Elements of Choed Practice

3. The Sound of Vultures' Wings: Ritual Mapping the Choed Practice

4 The Choed Damaru Drum: Symbolism, Function, and Variation in an Interpretive Community

5. Mantric Utterance in Choed

6. The Four Ritual Activities

Part III: Meaning and Application of Choed Practice

7. Mind and Sound in Choed

8. Transmission and Transformation

9. Gift of the Body in Choed: Healing the Suffering from "Self-Interest"

Conclusion: Continuity of the Choed Ritual Tradition

Note on Choed Research
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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• Antropologia social e cultural
• Teoria da música e musicologia
• Culto budista, ritos e cerimônias
• Budismo tibetano

Musical Performance; Ritual Mapping; Mind and Sound; Buddhist Life and practice; Tibetan Buddhism; Theory of music and musicology; meditation; mindfulness; healing and health