"silhuetas de uma dança imaginária" for guitar quartet by
Rafael Nassif (2009-10); audio documentation from a rehearsal with the CORDA NOVA guitar quartet.

"silhuetas de uma dança imaginária"

02 Baião do Caminhar

Happy Birthday, Khentrul Rinpoche! May you live a long and healthy life!

To celebrate Khentrul Rinpoche's birthday, Rafael Nassif, a music composer, has kindly made a sensory collage of Rinpoche's name mantra. Students from around the world devotionally chanted Rinpoche's mantra in their own way. When combined, this soundscape creates a global auditory offering.

If you listen to this with headphones, the male and female voices will come from their respective sides to unite in the center.
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About Khentrul Rinpoche's Name Mantra 
When Lama Lobsang Trinlé officially recognised Khentrul Rinpoché as the reincarnation of Ghetse Khentrul and Ngawang Chözin Gyatso, he bestowed on Rinpoché two names—one short and one long. Students who wish to cultivate their connection to Rinpoché can recite these mantras as part of their practice.

SHORT MANTRA
OM AH GURU VAJRADHARA MANJUSHRI PRIYA MATI SARVA SIDDHI HUNG HUNG

Sanskrit	Meaning
OM	The enlightened body
AH	The enlightened speech
GURU VAJRADHARA	The Absolute Guru of Primordial Wisdom
MANJUSHRI	The Bodhisattva of Wisdom
PRIYA MATI	Joyful Intellect
SARVA SIDDHI	Bestow all accomplishments
HUNG HUNG	The enlightened mind and nature
LONG MANTRA
OM AH GURU VAJRADHARA DHARMADHATU JÑANA MANJUSHRI PRIYA MATI DIGVIJAYA SENA SARVA SIDDHI HUNG HUNG

Sanskrit	Meaning
OM	The enlightened body
AH	The enlightened speech
GURU VAJRADHARA	The Absolute Guru of Primordial Wisdom
DHARMADHATU	The Absolute Space of Reality
JÑANA	Primordial Wisdom
MANJUSHRI	The Bodhisattva of Wisdom
PRIYA MATI	Joyful Intellect
DIGVIJAYA SENA	General Who is Victorious Over Bias
SARVA SIDDHI	Bestow all accomplishments
HUNG HUNG	The enlightened mind and nature
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Rinpoche spent the first 20 years of his life herding yak and chanting mantras on the plateaus of Tibet. Inspired by the bodhisattvas, he left his family to study in a variety of monasteries under the guidance of over twenty-five masters in all the Tibetan Buddhist traditions. Due to his non-sectarian approach, he earned himself the title of Rimé (unbiased) Master and was identified as the reincarnation of the famous Kalachakra Master Ngawang Chözin Gyatso. While at the core of his teachings is the recognition that there is great value in the diversity of all spiritual traditions found in this world; he focuses on the Jonang-Shambhala tradition. Kalachakra (wheel of time) teachings contain profound methods to harmonize our external environment with the inner world of body and mind, ultimately bringing about the golden age of Peace and Harmony (Dzokden).

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Brazilian composer based in Austria, whose work concentrates on timbric and spatial aspects. In his teenage years he studied composition informally with Almeida Prado and Marlos Nobre. Later Nassif received his Bachelor's degree in Composition at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (2003-7, class of Oiliam Lanna and Sérgio Freire) and Master's degree from the State University of Music and Performing Arts of Stuttgart (2009-12, class of Caspar Johannes Walter; seminars on Sonology with Oliver Schneller and Marco Stroppa); at the same University he concluded in 2014 with honor the Konzertexamen in Composition, last musical degree in Germany. He also carried out studies in the Alexander Technique (and the musical phenomenon) with Ilan Sebastian Grabe. Master-classes at international festivals include among others Alvin Lucier, Christian Wolff, Kaija Saariaho, Beat Furrer, George Aperghis and Georg Friedrich Haas.

Nassif's music has been played and recorded worldwide; in 2013 his portrait CD "musica d'incanto" was published in Brazil. He has also received various awards for his works, among them first prizes in events such as the Irino Prize 2011 (Tokyo) and the BMI Student Composer Awards 2009 (NY), as well as commissions (among others from the Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra, CordaNova guitar quartet, ensemble cross.art, SWR-Vokalensemble). In Germany he received in 2013 the "Karl-Sczuka-Förderpreis" on the SWR-Donaueschinger Musiktage; in 2014 a composer's fellowship from the BW-Kunststiftung and from the Akademie der Künste-Berlin. In 2015 he has obtained the "Kunstpreis Berlin" in the AdK and for the second time the Irino Prize (for "musica d'incanto").

Nassif is active in the multiple capacities of composer, interpreter/performer (piano, ad-hoc) and curator/organizer of concerts. In partnership with several musicians, he has organized and participated in an extensive number of concerts in the cities where he has resided, such as the contemporary music series 'eu gostaria de ouvir' (Belo Horizonte, 2008-12). His varied parallel interests (Experimental Art, Philosophy, Meditation, Pranayama and others) reverberate in his recent works.

"silhuetas de uma dança imaginária"

rafael NASSIF composer

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