Fan bai = Chinese Buddhist monastic chants / edited by Pi-yen Chen.

Other author Chen, Pi-Yen, editor.
Format Audio (CD)
Publication InfoMiddleton, Wis. : A-R Editions, Inc., ©2010.
Description1 score (165 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles ; 31 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Subjects
Buddhist chants.
Buddhist chants--China.

Parallel title Chinese Buddhist monastic chants
Variant title Fanbai
SeriesRecent researches in the oral traditions of music, 1066-8209 ; 8
Recent researches in the oral traditions of music 8.
Contents History and background. Major categories of early Chinese Buddhist chants ; Liturgies of contemporary Chinese Buddhism ; Chant principles and techniques ; Monastic instruments and music notation ; Modern conceptions of Buddhist music -- Categorization and analysis of musical styles. Free chant ; Prayer ; Dhāraṇi based on a precomposed melody ; Praises ; Gāthās -- The Chinese Buddhist daily service. Editions of daily recitation books ; Structure and contents ; The morning service ; The evening service -- Plates and transcriptions -- Facsimile : complete liturgy of the daily service.
Contents CD contents. Opening gāthā of Śūraṅgama Dhāraṇi -- Complete main text of the morning service -- Text of Worshipping Buddhas and penance -- A prayer -- Zhunti dhāraṇi : from the Ritual of releasing the flaming mouths -- Baoding zan = (Incense praise) -- Hua fengxian : from the Precious penitential liturgy of the Emperor Liang -- Gāthā of Washing the (statue of the) Buddha -- Vowing gāthā of the great transference of merit -- Yuanxiao sanzhang zhu fannao = (Gāthā of merit transference). Melody 1 ; Melody 2 -- Morning bell gāthā -- Invocation of Amitābha Buddha : free-tune invocation -- Antiphonal invocation of Bhaiṣajyaguru Buddha -- Zhenuo miaoti : the slow mode of fanqiang : from the jianyan in the first division of Sanshi xinian -- Mode of shuqiang : from the jianyan in the second division of Sanshi xinian -- Mode of daoqiang : from the jianyan in the third division of Sanshi xinian.
General noteAccompanying CD contains recordings of the chants in the score mostly performed by people at the Xiang guang Buddhist Temple and the Fo guang shan Monastery, both in Taiwan.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 163-165) and glossary.
Performer Accompanying CD principally performed by members of the Xiang guang Buddhist Temple and the Fo guang shan Monastery, Taiwan.
LanguageSong texts in Chinese; commentary in English.
ISBN9780895796721
ISBN0895796724

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