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Here’s a mantra I’ve not heard before, sung so very beautifully:

.(Please tell me I’m not the only one who thinks she looks and sounds a lot like Sheryl Crow Alanis Morissette here! … and do drop by in the comments to tell me how many times you hit “replay” — I’ve been listening to this for about an hour now!)

It’s easy to sing along; here are the “lyrics”:

Tey A Ta Om Bekandze Bekandze Maha Bekandze Radza Samogate Soha

Literal translation (based on info from here):

Tey A Ta: like this (??)
Om: the cosmic salutation AUM
Bekandze Bekandze: the Medicine Buddha (2x)
Mahabekandze: great or supreme physician
Bekandze Radza: King of physicians
Samogate: Perfectly liberated or awakened
Soha: Hail!

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It’s interesting to see the slightly different pronunciations for terms I recognise: Soha I know as Swaha; Radza I know as Raja.  This is because Surya is using Tibetan pronunciation while in general the mantras I know are in Sanskrit.

But what does it mean?  I’ll cover that in the next post.

In the meantime, you can see and hear more of Surya in Twitter, YouTube and MySpace.

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