Buddhist Trance Dance

[tomfryer2000]

is he on Ket?

[Umadbrahification]

sounds like farting noise

[lion2hand]

omg hes going wild !!!

[thehumanracesux]

lol the horns sound like big farts

[lago4]

It's an old episode of Tibet's Got Talent

[hairsish]

great video ;)

[DoomerDad]

what a bunch of pompous posturing!

[SHIBBYiPANDA]

@DoomerDad what?

[l33tMaster1337]

-.- I thought he dances to some Trance like "Future Trance" or something.

But thats what you meant with Trance......

If I would have to do this, i would just say "Fuck it...I go get a beer!"

[kamwrites]

@l33tMaster1337 Speaks for you character, apparently. ;)

[l33tMaster1337]

@kamwrites

You fail at trolling dude.

[kamwrites]

@l33tMaster1337 I'm a "dudette"....dude.....

[l33tMaster1337]

@kamwrites

then...why the hell arent you in the Kitchen!?!

[kamwrites]

@l33tMaster1337 *snorts* Yep.

[stellaxkorean]

how does htis have dislikes????

[b00i00d]

Sorry but this vid is utterly boring!...

[powerfulnun]

looks like he was listening to some slow jams and smoking some purp, came rolling out of there.

[avimeni1]

Best Techno 2011 Tibet trance - 西藏- ཏ་ཱལའི་བླ་མ་look for

[1231lovelyn]

tibetans destiny should be decided by tibetans ...tibetans atleast have a prime minister n parliament...CHINA IS A JOKE...fing han mofo...look wat happened to japan n watch...if china doesn't disappear GOD isn't fair !!!!!!!!

[qwyzl]

@1231lovelyn which god, those of the chinese, those of the indians, buddha (who isn't technically a god), those gods of people living in areas around tibet..... to which "god" do you refer? if you refer to the arabian "god" whom you have adopted, how is it this "god" of yours would have a say in matters of those people who believe in OTHER gods? you make no sense.

[1231lovelyn]

QWYZL..... WAT THE F ARABIAN GOD... I AM NOT MUSLIM U MOFO...GO F URSELF

CHINESE R IDIOTS n U JUST PROVED TAT... CHINESE R MOFOS ... CHINESE R MOFOS... CHINESE R MOFOS WTF R U DOING TO DO !!!!!!!!!!

[rbraunz]

Han chinese were the best thing that've ever happened to tibet



[1231lovelyn]

@rbraunz its like saying britishers and japanese were the best thing tat happened to china...loll in name of building ur looting n oppressing a culture n their religion...fing mofos....there r lot of ppl who wish china disappears from the face of the earth

[befeleme]

Are we are supposed to admire this primitive nonsense with starry-eyed sentimentalism? Tibet is no paradise, it is a medieval feudal theocratic society where people have little choice but slave to the priests and forced to spend their lives in subservience and superstition. Thanks to the Chinese for building fast trains to these last surviving outposts of exploitative feudalism, giving those people real education and, for the first time, some *real* choices what they can do with their lives.

[tarnicles]

Free India from Tibetans!

[dyingangelo]

play some lil gayne on the background lol

[thepixieful]

I guess the film clips are I really looking for are Bon shamanism, and it was shot by Lowell Thomas and crew decades ago......yes trance and masks in it. shamanism is not appreciated as well it is outside clock time......beads and cake for everyone here.

[thepixieful]

good practice session but I have looked for two days for the clip with the masks from about 1962 Lowell Thomas was the reporter, actual dance and actual trance. parts played by shaman, skeleton to represent 'the fools journey" etc. all about ego, social, life, death the usual, I really want to help this young man to feel the trance and get it right.

[joga17r]

The title has to be specific cuz There r different type of buddhism & the one on the video is Tibetan Buddhism

[MIKEalTV]

this seem like a delusional dance.... or maybe a mediation? ...lol

[AcidInzest]

and where was the trance?????????

[soledestate]

@AcidInzest This is the trance dance, the monk is learning and practising the steps.

The tance is a cerimony they do once they know the steps, with different costums and different mask.

[Maddlord4]

what type of music is that.i realy like it

[vinayaholder]

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[vinayaholder]

SharGaden is just one of a growing number of monasteries that propitiate the practice of Dorje Shugden. Others are Serbom monastery in India, Amarbayasgalant in Mongolia and Phelgyeling monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal. His practice is growing and spreading all over the world. OM BENZA WIKI BITANA SOHA is his powerful blessing mantra.

[vinayaholder]

New tibetan monastic institutions are still springing up today. One example is SharGaden monastery, where many of their monks were originally from the great Gelugpa monastery of Gaden Shartse, dokhang khamtsen. Gaden was one of the monasteries founded by the great Lama Tsongkhapa, Buddhist saint and scholar. Gaden monastery has produced great masters including H.H. Trijang Rinpoche and HH Zong Rinpoche.

[foleybarbarian]

Does any one know how i can travel to Nepal and become a Buddhist Monk. And Live and Study at a Temple.

Im from Europe so i dont know or have any information

[thepixieful]

@foleybarbarian darmasala is in india, it is where the dalai lama moved to. no women, no central heat but hey it might be great.

[foleybarbarian]

@thepixieful I know where Darmasala is

[vinayaholder]

Very interesting. But what i find most spectacular is when the oracle monk dances just after the deity enters. The sheer power and grace of his movements is spectacular. Check out these youtube videos: v6NIyLHlebI and t2AUPI901Ew.

[thepixieful]

@vinayaholder thanks I have been looking at footage and could not find it for two days. my background is in dance I so want to teach those monks. the folk dance and song seems to be thriving but the trance dance not so much. what are the titles so I can key it in please. I shall try what you sent but english might be best.

[lumalive]

In Theravada Buddhism there is no dancing by the monks. This must be Mahayana chapter mixed with Chinese or Tibetian cultures

[yamiyomizuki]

this is in tibet

[thepixieful]

@lumalive yes this I know, it goes back to bon, recently the dalai lama was photographed in bon costume, for years they fought, I think perhaps they have made up for the sake of tibetan culture, he was a farmers son, he knows the trad.

[andycandyylee]

go Jesus

what is the point of buddhism

this is retarded as crap

[TheSGxavier]

jesus? holy shit..that naked guy trying to act holy huh..

[lucius215]

@TheSGxavier whos naked in this vid?

[herbsrme23]

ritual, trance....whatever --it's transcendent

[pacificador24]

Id like to see some monks start krumping. Letting all the energy flow freely. Practicing something traditional day after day can lose its energy and can become stagnant. Aztec dancing is pretty spontaneous. Anyways, I wouldnt say things are as simple minded as in good vs bad. Being a Warrior. hmm I dont think its that simple

[thepixieful]

@pacificador24 actually from a dance pov you are right on, masks and the reach for sky bend toward earth would no be unlike krumping. and the horns are very atonal. also spins wearing a very large wooden heavy mask, the humans eyes look thru the mouth as the eyes of the mask are painted, and good footwork in the 1950's clip, really scary and powerful and atonal with brass. might be at lincoln center dance archive, Lowell Thomas was reporter on it. yep krumping would define it.

[thaibuddhaamulet]

Very nice dance trance for ritual. Thank you!

[impermanentoo]

There is no such thing as trance dance in Buddhism.

Check out TIPITAKA - The sacred book of Buddhism

[Primus2X]

Buddha=Satan

[fntime]

Free Tibet from Chinese lawless and

cruel subjugation!

The Chinese treatment of the Tibetians

show who they really are. Cruel, heavy handed and unenlightened!

[soledestate]

@fntime That is politic. Horrible politic, but it doesn't mean that all Chinese are bad.

It's like saying that all Germany were nazy, is not true. Not all Germans were nazy.

I have got a lot of Chinese friends who love buddism, who love tibetan monks, and feel shame for what their politic is doing.

[naufrago2006]

¡Free Tibet!

[THELHASA]

Wariors mantra om hangdzhia mala varaja soha buddhist Master Ole Nydahl said straight to me in buddhist course in Check, Friedland. And I know that I am that warior who will win this war. I think all Buddhas are enlightened and lead to Enlightenment. Then what about Amitayus, he is also Buddha. Thre are words of Ole Nydahl about meditation on Amitayus that in this meditation not Enlightenment is a goal, but only long life. I just ask. Warior.

[wolverin100]

you know im a not a religous guy i believe my own things and not something written 75 times over but if i must choose one it would be budhism thats the only religion that dident fight to make people member the other belives dit that but the budhism not

[donmopick89]

These monks are practising their ritual dance. nobody is in trance. Monks usually will have costumes when these dances are performed. the dances are performed during special sacred festival.

[thepixieful]

@donmopick89 yes those film clips from 1950's is what I am looking for. mongolians have mask I recall, shaman had it. eyes painted magi dancer looks thru the mouth of the big head. have you seen this footage?

[DalaiLamaFrankfurt]

Thank you for posting such an interesting dance-ritual, a really precious video!

[solidmidget]

does the trance dance take place before or after the deep meditation? or is it a form of meditation?

[iseaall1205]

form

[OneSpotToContemplate]

I think its got something to do with Guru Padmasambhava subduing the spirit nechung or Setrap the wrathful mountain spirit before tibet become buddhist

[OuLuYang]

Yup; they are practicing this reenactment.

[OneSpotToContemplate]

Im just curious to see spirits with my own 3rd eye, they must exist within a subtle level of matter or Light, i think one's conciousness has to be finely tuned to see these things

[thepixieful]

@OneSpotToContemplate go to the head of the class you comprehend the plot even better than my dancer self, where is that footage????? I recall it from decades ago would like to see it here???????

[tondruplhamo]

This is a traditional Tibetan Lama dance. No trance, nothing weird.

[Michael210272]

I fink this dude is drunk an probably a bit depressed. i noticed dat da other monks are staying well away from him. he might be a crazy monk who is prone to violent temper tantrums an da other monks are scared of him. He might be the local temple bully who beats up other monks an steals their money an stuff. if you see this monk, STAY AWAY FROM HIM OK.

[Michael210272]

i heard dat tibet is gonna invade China soon wiv like 50,000 super ninja monks who can deflect bullets an fly thru da air an stuff. is did true an when is it happening.

[Hatsumeha]

i think they too peaceful people to think that but maybe some of them are thinking of it

[STFUNERDX3m]

u dumb

[dancingcat87]

so amazing. very spiritual

[corsostudios]

I think most of this dance is about gathering energy from the earth. Which is why the movements seem strange, but there is an unseen purpose to them. Sort of like th Native American ritual dances.

[thepixieful]

@corsostudios exactly, the footage is out there somewhere if you find it let me know. I want to help this guy get the step and make the mask for him, really I do. and very similar to native dances, dalai lama said navaho similar genes. costumes and hair similar too and the shamanism of bon.

[SermonAudio]

Not the best music to dance to, poor lad.

[SermonAudio]

LOL

[Hidratos]

Hi, does anyone have an intersting, controversial, critizising discussion about the tibet-china matter?

[motaloca]

No. Yes.

[corsostudios]

checkout my vid here on youtube: TibetanFreedom

[yumsalad]

you have anger issues.. you need buddhism

[mebbmebbmibbmibb]

?????????????

[jasonlittlewolf]

This insnt a trance its a dance that they are learning..they wear the ornate costmes and the masks for special festivals and these unusual dances are done then..this guy is teaching the others showing them what to do.

[thepixieful]

@jasonlittlewolf I have looked two days for the mask footage,

[asilcotza]

have you already seen this unbelievable tibetan guitar player?

his name is tsering purtag, and i guess he's from switzerland. check out his live performance, keyword: purtag. he simply blew me away!

free tibet

[Hidratos]

to bad china destroys this wonderful culture. maybe tibetians are lucky and chinese continue giving their children poisoned milk.

[HimalayanHigari]

Hidratos:You are retardedhypocrite disgusting. Subhuman piece of shit. Please bring back the burnt mayan scripts, stolen antiques from all over the world. Enough of you hypo shit. Tibetans are not whites they are asian race so get your filthy hands off asia. Fucking Monkeyfaces.

[XxSweetQueenxX]

thank you for sharing I've never seen anything like this before

[asilcotza]

have you already seen this unbelievable tibetan guitar player?

his name is tsering purtag, and i guess he's from switzerland. check out his live performance, keyword: purtag. he simply blew me away!

free tibet

[sodomesopeto]

drugs drugs and more drugs

[HimalayanHigari]

Mystic joy of soul is without limit.I am Chinese and we must unite.Tibetans are our brothers.

[LaurenzoFang]

@HimalayanHigari if you considerTibetans to be your brothers, so free them, and let them be happy with their own way and freedom... no forcing them anymore

[loki303030]

tibet is real high kulture youre video to out it is trance com in germany not on hit. to baaad

[rarityd]

he looks very pieceful while performing this dance. I don't see anyone can move like this while being high on any kind of drugs.

[funambularist]

Things like marijouana have been found at archaeological sites. Even in the Altai mountains where they exhumed the warrior princess. Thousands of years old. Weed has always been used as a way to focus the mind. You can have single pointed focusness and that helps because the mind tends to wander a lot. Perhaps more so with shamanism than Buddhism though. But i could be wrong.

[chat972]

Well... well... well... Buddhisme says, a rope in the darkness isn't a snake. Do not trust what you see or what other say. The monk isn't drung or under drugs ! He is just learning a traditional dance. Nothing else.

[Unityspirit49]

drugs are bad.. :} Btw.

[hashro]

looooool hahahahaha

i think the same 2 ;)

[Pablo161290]

For those who say drugs shouldnt be used for meditation cuz you should learn to meditate without em it's actually a hard things sometimes to control yourself using psychoactives it's like when you use a mdecine they only hellp to improve your defensive system for me drugs help to improve your meditation

[LionsInTheStreets]

yes

[Unityspirit49]

You know Im native american apache. the more I study buddhism the more I see a kindred spirit. Peyote was and is used in many of the native tradtion..Tibetan buddhism I would call shamanistic and animism. but that is my opinion of course. Om...

[monkmellon]

Too bad they don't do anything to help your spelling. Please, if you are on drugs, YOU ARE NOT MEDITATING.

[urbandiscount]

dutsi is an intoxicant. as such it is used in abisekha (literally: sprinkling) rituals. Anyone who thinks that certain psychoactive substances are not part of the vajrayana is mistaken. Stories about Milarepa point to the use of amanita muscaria.

[pancreaticforce]

Is there a website that explains these kinds of rituals?

[thepixieful]

@pancreaticforce bon religion and shamanism

[smurkledunk]

FREE TIBET!!!

[TantLudd]

Thank you. Beautiful! What we think we become.

[bobbywise]

oh no! looks like someones trippin on xtc! but really there are many different buddhist ways just like there are many different christian churchs. just like the buddha said what ever floats your boat man! zen

[JAKENsmushishi]

DUMMY HEAD >:p

[leafeater24]

This shouldent be up on youtube. Lama dances are not supposed to be put on display like this:(

[epenmedi]

I dont agree. I found this video fascinating and worth investigating. Watching this I have nothing but respect for these monks.

[emptywig]

Oh puh-leese

[ZenSkin]

It is a practice for a lama dance ... and, given the current state of violence in Lhasa, what is the harm is showing this? This a culture that needs to be preserved. When people see that the Tibetan monks are peaceful in their daily actions, it affirms the understanding that the violence in the region is incited by the Chinese army.

[leafeater24]

I know its a practice, but practices are also not supposed to be put on display. It doesn't do any "actual" harm. Its just disrespectful to the tradition thats all.

I don't know, if he knew he was being filmed and if it was all approved of by a lama who said it was ok to post it for anyone to see then i would feel better about it. But if this was filmed without his and a lama's permission (which i assumed it was) then i highly disapprove.

[ZenSkin]

This is not inner tantra or secret tantra ... so public displays and filming are ok.

Keep in mind how many Tibetan lamas have been to the West to give initiation and outer tantric empowerments to the general public ... this is how they are preserving their tradition, by making people aware of it. They are not revealing the inner tantra or yogas or Naropa or tertons. These are events that are held in public for the "mani-sayers" and Santideva calls them. :-)

[leafeater24]

Ok.All i know about lama dancing is what i have been told, and that is:don't practice in public- even in front of other dharma practitioners to tell you the truth, when my lama told me this i didn't quiz him on exactly why, but he said it is not a thing that is just not supposed to be public.

Now, saying that, if it was an event, like you mentioned, then thats cool because then i'm sure it was approved..just personally, i don't feel comfortable about it being on youtube.But that is just me:)

[thepixieful]

@ZenSkin it is not preserved enough, i am still looking for the footage with the MASKS. tell all dancers around the world put the masks back on.

[wunnamurra]

@thepixieful The end of all Hopi ceremonialism will come when a "Kachina" removes his mask during a dance in the

plaza before uninitiated children [the general public].

[yokolee666]

This is a tibetan lama they have special dances like this performed by lamas on occasions but they wear masks and supposed to ward off evil spirits

[DaaDutch]

ow shit T_T

[tja852]

Are you high..?

[teatowl]

yes..yes he is lol

[neopower876]

what contry is this?

[smurkledunk]

Officialy it is China but it is part of Tibet. FREE TIBET!

[teatowl]

then agian he probly is high anyway..lol

[bblubna]

wonder what they would think of the Salsa!!!!

[jirina2]

I do not think this monk is in trance. I think he repeats this dance for himself . The real performance is with the masks, but monks performing this are not in trance.

Orakel comes to the trance not the dancers.

[cozarcade]

OhLuChan you been teasing Me! these beautiful horns are indeed Dung Chen.

This Trance dance is free. I love your= whole collection

[cozarcade]

digeriddo is an instrument indegenous to Australia, has the a simular pitch, but this is a different instrument. thanx though.

[cozarcade]

seriously i would like to find out the instrument name.

[Filledor]

Isn t it a didgeridoo (or similar?)

[ZenSkin]

"dung-chen" or "Large Trumpet" ... they are about nine feet long when extended (they telescope) and are traditionally made of silver or brass. They are usually played in pairs for religious rituals.

[cozarcade]

what is the name of that drowning horn in the background?

[GrapefruityTikbit]

give that boy some Ayahuasca - that'll speed things up a notch!

[SpiderET]

Hehe, or mescaline or psylociben. That would really get him into trance :)

[teatowl]

i would really like to see this guy high nd do the same dance..fuck that would be funny ;)

[ZenSkin]

There is a prohibition against the use of intoxicants among the sangha ... fools seek quick path with chemicals. The sage seeks to conquer the ego with meditation -- even if it takes many lifetimes.

Eat chemicals fool, this path is not for you.

[Viandanterosso]

Don't agree with you...In the last times entheogens (NATURAL sacred substance)have been revalutated and many sincere spiritual seekers use them wisely to strenght their sadhana and meditation. I personally know buddhist people who seldom use psychoactive plants and this helps their practice...Probably it's not your way, but please have more respect for others and know better what you're talking about...

[ZenSkin]

The path of the shaman has influenced Buddhism to be certain. But, as you say, "wise" use which includes respect. It's not common among Tibetan sangha, but it's there among some Hindus. I believe varjayana owes something to to the ecstatic experience of joy, whatever the catalyst.

But someone was posting about ecstasy, another about LSD ... I want to point out the disrespect inherent in such comments.

[MerkavahmkIV]

I agree. The use of any chemical agent to "enhance" legitimate mystical experience is probably not a very good idea.

I'm not a Buddhist, I'm Jewish, but we hold similar laws with regard to this issue. The Rabbis do not condone the use of drugs, be they natural or synthetic, and certainly do not believe that they can be used as a meditative aid.

I think that it is best to have your mind clear, before you loose it. :)

Free Tibet!

[bblondie946]

buddhism is older then the jewish religion. the newer religions have rules and laws that have been placed not becuase theyre true and lead to the path of deeper spirituality, but for alternative reasons posed by man. psychoactives are looked down upon by newer religions cause they OPEN THE MIND: make you see things of greater depth then can be explained physically. and that scares the powers of this world. organized religion is ONE of those powers. also being corporate companies, the government.

[MerkavahmkIV]

No, it isn't.

Hinduism is older, but not by much. Buddhism came out of Hinduism (much in the same way that Christianity came from Judaism), so I understand why you would think that.

You, obviously, do not know the first thing about Judaism. It can hardly be compared to a "corportate company" (which is redundant.) We do not forcively convert people, we do not fight expansionistic wars; we don't do things like the other major religions do.

Ever heard of the Kabbalah?

[MerkavahmkIV]

The Kabbalah is Jewish mysticism. It is forbidden to all but the most pious Rabbi; and with good reason. I won't go into it here, but the Kabbalah is the spiritual core of Judaism.

And much of the Kabbalah is eeriely similar to a lot of Buddhist practice and belief; espercially the practice of meditation.

(For example: In the Torah we have 1 G-d, but in the Kabbalah we have 72. The 72 are ways of looking at and understanding the 1; however we deal with them seperately. Just like Buddhism.)

[MerkavahmkIV]

I take it that you object to my comment regarding the use of psychoactives.

I never said that they CANNOT be used to enhance mystical experience; only that they SHOULD not.

If you are using psychoactives during meditation; could it be that you are short-changing yourself? Don't rely on the drugs to do for you what you should be able to teach your mind to do itself.

The Dali Lama would agree with me; as would the Rabbinate (the congress of Rabbis), so my questions is: Who the hell are you?

[nitejsha]

i like  it

[jaromurdoc]

Namaste!

[zhonghua2006]

which made him in trance??

[barbarashinton]

excellent.

[ShantiHank]

Namaste!

Now people now what to do at the prom.

[rianelli]

Thanks for sharing!

[rajiveanand]

Really cool! If you'd like to check out a 'black hat' ceremony in Bhutan, see my video "Dead or Alive"!

R.

[ShantiHank]

Namaste! bhutan has no traffic lights...and people are happy.

[raosprid]

wow, they dance?! it's actually forbidden by the monastic code :)

[RedKhandro]

no it isn't, its a ritual dance, not for their worldly pleasure.

[Sherab0]

Dancing is not... unless it is for attachment. these dances are for liberating and benefiting beings, and you dance as a Buddha, with that mindset.. everyone who does this has realized some level of the deity so they do not perceive things normally like we do, they are not attached.

[openingmind]

Thank you for posting, I live in a community of Jnana yogis (in training)and it is greatly beneficial to me to be able to witness the states-of-mind of these monks, both the dancer and the watchers.

[ravehead]

thank you OuLuYang for this video, i have a deep respect for buddhist traditions and practices