Published by: World Tibet Network News, Saturday, March 23, 1996

From: donhill@wimsey.com (Don Hill)

For anyone weary or wary of the Academy Awards on Monday 25 March 1996, tune into Canada's VISION TV at 9 o'clock EST/PST for _Chants Encounter_ and _Ganden Jangtse Monks: Sacred Music & Dance_.

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. 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.

_Ganden Jangtse Monks: Sacred Music & Dance_ features the complete twenty-minute chant (highlighted in Chants Encounter) and dance without interruption; both programmes will be broadcast back-to-back; they're also in stereo sound.

For American satellite-dish owners, you can view the programmes off the ANIK satellite and the VISION TV transponder.