Gyuto Monks also announce historic performance at world-famous UK music festival Glastonbury.
The Dalai Lama said “The work that the Gyuto Monks do in the west has my full support”

The Grammy-nominated Gyuto Monks of Tibet live in exile in Dharamsala, Northern India and are currently on tour in Australia with His Holiness The Dalai Lama, who also resides in Dharamsala.

The Monks will break off from their tour in Australia to travel to the UK for the first time in 40 years to perform at Glastonbury Festival.

They will perform on Thursday 27th June in the Green Fields, as well as create a ceremonial Sand Mandala, a Tibetan Buddhist tradition of building a symbolic picture of the universe out of coloured sand which, on completion, is dissolved and returned to the waters of the earth..

Gyuto Monks of Tibet forthcoming album, ‘Chants: The Spirit of Tibet’, will be produced by Youth, the bassist for the post-punk rock band Killing Joke, whose production and remix credits include Primal Scream, U2, Erasure, Depeche Mode and The Verve.

Youth said of the music “The Monks exemplify, in their mystical chants, the essence of Tibetan Tantric Wisdom and the profound philosophy of the Dalai Lama. This is a musical system intentionally designed to alter your consciousness towards an illuminated and enlightened state.”

In addition to this, The Orb - widely known as the inventors of “ambient house” from the late 1980s - are remixing the famous Buddhist ‘chordal chanting’, which has become the Buddhist musical trademark. The LP is co-produced and mixed by Tim Bran whose production and mixing credits include The Verve, La Roux and Scissor Sisters.