Christopher Bono - The Unexcelled Mantra - Full Score (SATB)

PDF Sheet Music of The Unexcelled Mantra Unity and The Unexcelled Mantra were recorded with Harold Rosenbaum and the New York Virtuoso singers at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City. Both contemplate a path to transcendence or ‘true being’ through Union with the cosmos; The Unexcelled Mantra doing so from a Mahayana Buddhist point of view, and Unity from the Philosophical Tradition of Plato. The Unexcelled Mantra is a setting of text from the ‘Heart Sutra’, a sacred and very important text in Mahayana Buddhism on practicing the view of Shunyata, or Emptiness in order to obtain Nirvana, an experiential liberation. The mantra reads: “Gate, Gate, Paragate, Parasamgate, Bohdi Svaha!” A description from the Dalai Lama: “The Mantra of the perfection of wisdom (The Unexcelled Mantra) is proclaimed: "tadyath gaté gaté paragaté parasamgaté bodhi svaha! Shariputra, the bodhisatvas, the great beings, should train in the perfection of widsom in this way.” In Sanskrit, tadyat