Alleged Mispronunciation by Craig Pruess
Chants of Buddha is one of the music albums that I regularly use for my meditation sessions. Not that I understand the meaning of the chants but for the vibrations of the music, I use it for my meditative practices. But I found one Amazon customer complaining that the pronunciation used in the chants differ slightly from how it should be. It doesn’t matter to me if the chants are in right pronunciation or not, as long as the music helps me in meditation. (And Chants of Buddha didn’t make my meditation any little less with its alleged mispronunciation.)
Craig Pruess, the commenter says, should have practiced proper pronunciation before composing this album. After reading that comment, I wanted to listen to some original Tibetan chanting of the same mantra and I purchased Tibetan Incantations. While I cannot like Craig Pruess’s composition any less, I had to accept the fact that I began to like the chanting of Om Mani Padme Hum (the alternate version) in Tibetan Incantations more. I cannot identify if my liking has anything to do with the proper pronunciation. But certainly, I like the Tibetian Incantations. It’s plain classical chanting of mantras.
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