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Music, Meaning and Mantra

Posted in: Buddhism, Psychology

Ratnaguna interviews Advayacitta about the importance and meaning of music in general, and in particular of the chanting of mantras. You can listen the song from Beethoven’s opera Fidelio that Advayacitta and Ratnaguna discussed here.

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