Gyuto (also spelled Gyütö or Gyüto) Tantric University is one of the great monastic institutions of the Gelug Order.

Gyuto
(Tibetan རྒྱུད་སྟོད་ , Wylie rGyud sTod) was founded in 1475 by Jetsun
Kunga Dhondup and is one of the main tantric colleges of the Gelug
tradition. In Tibet, monks who had completed their geshe studies would
be invited to join Gyuto or Gyume, another tantric institution, to
receive a firm grounding in vajrayana practice. Both of these
monasteries used to be in Lhasa, Tibet, but they have been
re-established in India. At the time of the Chinese invasion in 1950,
about 1000 monks were part of the monastery. On 21 March 1959, soon
after the 14th Dalai Lama had left Lhasa for exile in India, Ramoche was
a focus of military operations by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army.
“One especially valuable memoir is provided by the Fifth Yulo Rinpoche,
a monk at Gyuto Upper Tantric College and organizer of defense of
Ramoche Temple, who says that ‘the Chinese Communists shot Tibetans
indiscriminately, whether they had taken part in the resistance or not,
and ambushed and killed many Tibetans who ran to Ngabo’s house for
sanctuary.’ Another witness, Jampa Tenzin, has stated in a personal
interview that he saw fleeing beggars and children slain near Ramoche
Temple, a report corroborated in other Tibetan memoirs.”

60
Gyuto monks fled to India in 1959. After initially gathering in
Dalhousie, India, the monastery was established in Tenzing Gang, in
Arunachal Pradesh, India. The main monastery is now based in Sidhbari,
near Dharamsala, India. Today, there are nearly 500 monks in the entire
order. Ramoche Temple in Lhasa was located inside Gyuto Monastery.

The
Gyuto monks are known for their tradition of overtone singing, also
described as “chordal chanting” which is said to have been transmitted
by their founder. It achieved renown in the West following the release
of recordings made by David Lewiston in 1974 and in 1986 by Windham Hill
Records.

In 1995, a group of Gyuto Monks travelled to the United States and performed during a series of concerts with the Grateful Dead.

Under the name “Gyüto Monks Tantric Choir”, they appeared on the Mickey Hart/Planet Drum album Supralingua.

The perfect jewel / Sacred chants of Tibet

Multiphonic chants from Tibetan tantric Buddhist rituals. Sung in Tibetan.

Gyuto Monks Tantric Choir.

Produced by Mickey Hart.

Recorded
at Studio X in April, 1995. Previously released on Ryko RCD 10626 in
2002. Contributor: Gyuto Monks. Tantric Choir - Hart, Mickey

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