Published by World Tibet Network News - Wednesday, January 03, 1996

From: donhill@wimsey.com (Don Hill)

For North American viewers: if you have a satellite dish, or perhaps a friend who has one, consider looking in on Knowledge Network (ANIK, Ku band), next week.

The first window for _Chants Encounter_, a television programme about harmonic overtones and ritual chanting featuring the Ganden Jangtse monks is next Sunday night at 10:30 PST (07 January); it's not the complete hour (the whole 20 minute chant by the monks will accompany the VISION television national broadcast in Canada coming up in March).

Knowledge Network is available on cable throughout the province of British Columbia. Check local television listings for the station nearest you.

A home-video package featuring both _Chants Encounter_ and _Ganden Jangtse Monks: Sacred Music & Dance_ is available; a portion of the proceeds from the sale of this video goes toward reconstruction of the Ganden monastery in south India.

Chants Encounter is an extraordinary journey of sight and sound to the world of Gregorian Chant, Tibetan monasteries, and the centuries-old Mongolian style of overtone singing. It demonstrates the powerful healing and meditative qualities of ritual chanting and overtone harmonics.

Host and programme producer, Don Hill captures a special "chants encounter" of the Ganden Jangtse monks of India. In exile since the invasion of their Tibetan homeland in 1959, the Ganden Jangtse monks perform sacred dances and ritual overtone chanting to raise money to sustain their transplanted monastery.

Outstanding location footage features the people and monasteries of Tibet; the construction of a beautiful sand mandala floor-painting by the Ganden Jangtse monks; Gregorian chant complimented by glimpses of the harmonically stunning interior of Amien's Notre Dame, a 13th century cathedral in northern France; the Slot Canyons of Arizona; as well as Canada's breathtaking Rocky Mountain parks and West Coast.