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Lama Gyurme (born in 1948), or Lama Gyourmé, is a Buddhist Bhutanese monk and musician. He has lived in France since 1974, and he is the director of the Kagyu-Dzong center in Paris and, since 1982, the Vajradhara-Ling center in Normandy. Read More: > HERE <

Born in Bhutan in 1948, he was entrusted by his family at the age of four to the monastery of Djang Tchub Tcheu Ling in Bhutan where his interest in sacred music appeared quickly. At the age of nine, he became a permanent resident of the monastery where he received Buddhist teachings, completed by an initiation to traditional arts, including music.

At the age of 20, he followed his first spiritual retreat of three years, three months and three days, necessary to the formation of Lama, at the monastery of Sonada in India of which the director is Kalu Rinpoche. During this retreat, he was given the title of „Oumze“ — master of music — by Kalu Rinpoche. After a stay at the monastery of Rumtek in Sikkim, he fulfilled his religious education in Bhutan before obtaining his diploma of teacher of the Kagyupa tradition that was given to him by the 16th Karmapa.

Lama Gyurme – For the Light

In 1995 and in 1998, Gyurme went on a pilgrimage to Tibet and visited the 17th Karmapa Orgyen Trinley Dorje in the Monastery of Tsurphu. He presented him his project of construction of the Temple for Peace.

Gyurme also participated in the music of the 1999 film Himalaya‘.

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Heiligenkreuz Abbey (Stift Heiligenkreuz, Closter Heiligen Creyz or Santa Crux) is a Cistercian monastery in the village of Heiligenkreuz in the southern part of the Vienna woods, eight miles north-west of Baden in Lower Austria. It has existed without interruption since its foundation in 1133 and is thus the second oldest continuously occupied Cistercian monastery in the world. The monastery was founded in 1133 by Margrave Leopold III of Austria, also known as Saint Leopold, at the request of his son Otto, abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Morimond in Burgundy and afterwards Bishop of Freising. Its first twelve monks together with their abbot, Gottschalk, came from Morimond at the request of Leopold III. The date of consecration was 11 September 1133. They started by clearing the wood and tilling the land. They introduced the Christian faith into the region. They called their abbey Heiligenkreuz (Holy Cross) as a sign of their devotion to redemption by the Cross. On 31 May 1188 Leopold V of Austria presented the abbey with a relic of the True Cross, which is still to be seen and since 1983 is exhibited in the chapel of the Holy Cross. This relic was a present from Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, King of Jerusalem to duke Leopold V in 1182. Read More: > HERE <

Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic liturgical music within Western Christianity that accompanied the celebration of Mass and other ritual services. It is named after Pope Gregory I, Bishop of Rome from 590 to 604, who is traditionally credited for having ordered the simplification and cataloging of music assigned to specific celebrations in the church calendar. The resulting body of music is the first to be notated in a system ancestral to modern musical notation. In general, the chants were learned by the viva voce method, that is, by following the given example orally, which took many years of experience in the Schola Cantorum. Read More: > HERE <

CHANT – MUSIC FOR PARADISE – You can find a lot of information about us and the making of the album „Chant – Music for Paradise“ —> here. There is even more information about the album –> here (but this is in German).

If you are looking for pictures of our prayer and work on the album, just click —> here.

You will find even more pictures of our beautiful abbey and also of our monastic life in the service of God —> here. Just open each picture and click on the symbol in the right edge above to download. The download is free.

The sensational YouTube video by Brother Martin.You just have to see it! God bless you.

If you are a journalist and wish to interview some monk from Stift Heiligenkreuz about the album please do not call the monastery direct, but:

For international media (outside Austria): Ed SCOTT (Director Of International Promotions – UM Group International) Tel +44 207 471-5646, Fax +44 207 471-5683 mobile +44 7785 950 792, E-Mail: Ed.Scott(at)umusic.com

For Austrian media: Anna TSCHIRKO (Promotion Manager – Universal Music Austria), A-1010 Wien, Schwarzenbergplatz 2, Tel +43 1 81121-211, Fax: +43-1-81121-232;, Mobile: 0664-8294558 , E-Mail: anna.tschirko(at)umusic.com

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The Austrian National Library (German: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, abbreviated „ÖNB“ and formerly Hofbibliothek ), is , with 7.4 million items in its collections, the largest library in Austria. The collections consist of: papyri (one or the greatest papyri collections, manuscripts, ancient and rare books, maps, globes, music, portraits, graphics, photographs, autographs and posters as well as works in and on Esperanto and other artificial languages are stored in the various collections and are available for scientific research. Read More: > HERE <

Pedanius Dioscorides (Greek: Πεδάνιος Διοσκορίδης; ca. 40-90 AD), a native of Anazarbus, Cilicia, Asia Minor, was, according to a recent manual of toxicology, „… an ancient Greek physician, pharmacologist and botanist who practised in ancient Rome at the time of Nero. He was a surgeon with the army of the emperor, so he had the opportunity to travel extensively seeking medicinal substances from all over the Roman and Greek world.“ Read More: > HERE <

The Vienna Dioscurides or Vienna Dioscorides is an early 6th-century illuminated manuscript of De MATERIA MEDICA by Dioscorides in Greek. It is an important and rare example of a late antique scientific text. The 491 vellum folios measure 37 by 30 cm and contain more than 400 pictures of animals and plants, most done in a naturalistic style.Read More: > HERE <

Das Thema der Begegnung verschiedener Kulturen hat seit den ersten Kontakten bis heute nichts an Aktualität verloren. Die immer wieder aufbrechenden Konflikte zwischen den unterschiedlichen Ethnien, Religionen und Weltanschauungen lassen leicht vergessen, welch große Bedeutung der interkulturelle Dialog für die Entwicklung der Zivilisationen hatte. Er wird getragen von Kräften, die das Streben nach sachlicher Erkenntnis und den Respekt vor den Errungenschaften der jeweils Anderen verbinden. Religiös motivierte Fragestellungen gaben vielfach den Anstoß für die wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung.

Die Ausstellung im Prunksaal behandelt Bereiche, die besonders von diesem Austausch profitiert haben und stellt die seit der Antike viel diskutierten Themen Medizin, Astronomie und Astrologie in den Vordergrund. Mittelalterliche Handschriften und Drucke führen durch die beeindruckende Welt der Wissensgeschichte.

Juden, Christen und Muslime. Interkultureller Dialog in alten Schriften

7. Mai – 7. November 2010

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Die großen Schriftkulturen – Zur Einführung in den komplexen Themenbereich werden die großen Schriftkulturen, die griechische, arabische, hebräische und lateinische vorgestellt.

Orte der Begegnung – Zentren des Dialoges – Die für alle Seiten fruchtbaren Begegnungen fanden primär an den Schnitt- und Berührungspunkten innerhalb des mediterranen Raumes statt, etwa in Spanien und Süditalien. Dabei fungierten weltliche Einrichtungen wie die Kalifen- und Fürstenhöfe, Schulen und Universitäten ebenso als Schmelztiegel der Kulturen wie die kirchlichen Institutionen.

Zimelien der Medizin, Astronomie und Astrologie – Die Ausstellung bietet aber auch die Möglichkeit lange nicht der Öffentlichkeit präsentierte Kostbarkeiten zu bestaunen. Darunter befinden sich einzigartige Werke des > UNESCO-Weltdokumentenerbes < , wie einige Glanzlichter aus der Renaissance-Bibliothek des Matthias Corvinus (König von 1458–1490) und für kurze Zeit auch der Wiener Dioskurides, als eine der ältesten und kostbarsten Handschriften der Sammlungen dieses Hauses.

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TAGORE,  Crisis in Civilization , There are Real Alternatives. A.E. Inst.

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Rabindranath Tagore  (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath. As a poet, novelist, musician, and playwright, he reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As author of Gitanjali and its „profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse“, in 1913 being the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Tagore was perhaps the most important literary figure of Bengali literature. He was a mesmerising representative of the Indian culture whose influence and popularity internationally perhaps could only be compared to that of Gandhi, whom Tagore named ‚Mahatma‘ out of his deep admiration for him. A Pirali Brahmin from Kolkata, Tagore was already writing poems at age eight.At age sixteen, he published his first substantial poetry under the pseudonym Bhanushingho („Sun Lion“) and wrote his first short stories and dramas in 1877. Tagore denounced the British Raj and supported independence. His efforts endure in his vast canon and in the institution he founded, Visva-Bharati University. Read More: > HERE <

Albert Eintstein Institute, About Our Name – Albert Einstein was deeply concerned about war, oppression, dictatorship, genocide, and nuclear weapons. He was willing to explore new approaches to confronting these problems of political violence, although he was not always happy with the choices available to him. At various times he was a war resister, a supporter of the war against the Nazi system, and an advocate of world government. In his later life, he became enormously impressed with the potential of nonviolent struggle. In 1950, he remarked on a United Nations radio broadcast that, „On the whole, I believe that Gandhi held the most enlightened views of all the political men in our time….“

Today, the Albert Einstein Institution continues work on that aspect of Einstein’s thought, examining the potential of nonviolent struggle to resolve the continuing problems of political violence.

Applications of Nonviolent Action (AHIMSA) – Nonviolent struggle can be used in a variety of circumstances for a variety of objectives. These include:

Dismantling dictatorships, Blocking coups d’état, Defending against foreign invasions and occupations, Providing alternatives to violence in extreme ethnic conflicts, Challenging unjust social and economic systems, Developing, preserving and extending democratic practices, human rights, civil liberties , and freedom of religion, Resisting genocide

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Yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, pratyahra, dharana, dhyana and samadhi are the eight limbs of yoga . Ahimsa, satya, asteya, bramacharya and aparigraha are the five yamas – The yoga sutras of Patanjali, 2.30-31

In the classical yoga system described by Patanjali more than two thousand years ago, the first stage (or limb, as they are generally called) of yoga is Yama (ethical disciplines) and of these, Ahimsa is the first. (The ethical Do´s and Don´ts or commandments for a propper way of life.)

In short, according to Patanjali, ahimasa, non-violence or, as Desikashar defines it, “Consideration for all living creatures, especially those who are innocent, in difficulty or worse off than we are” should be the very beginning of any yoga practice.

Sadhana : the realisation of life by Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a Bengali poet, philosopher, artist, playwright, composer and novelist. India’s first Nobel laureate, Tagore won the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature. He composed the text of both India’s and Bangladesh’s respective national anthems. Tagore travelled widely and was friends with many notable 20th century figures such as William Butler Yeats, H.G. Wells, Ezra Pound, and Albert Einstein. While he supported Indian Independence, he often had tactical disagreements with Gandhi (at one point talking him out of a fast to the death). His body of literature is deeply sympathetic for the poor and upholds universal humanistic values. His poetry drew from traditional Vaisnava folk lyrics and was often deeply mystical.

Sadhana is a collection of essays, most of which he gave before the Harvard University, describing Indian beliefs, philosophy and culture from different viewpoints, often making comparison with Western thought and culture. (Summary by Peter Yearsley/Wikipedia)

CONTENTS: I. THE RELATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL TO THE UNIVERSE, II. SOUL CONSCIOUSNESS,III. THE PROBLEM OF EVIL, IV. THE PROBLEM OF SELF, V. REALISATION IN LOVE, VI. REALISATION IN ACTION, VII. THE REALISATION OF BEAUTY, VIII. THE REALISATION OF THE INFINITE

FULL TEXT AT PROJEKT Gutenberg < TAGORE AT SACRED TEXT´s < ( Gitanjali [1913], Saddhana, The Realisation of Life [1916] The Crescent Moon [1913], Fruit-Gathering [1916], Stray Birds [1916], The Home and the World [1915], Thought Relics [1921] Songs of Kabîr[1915])

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