Word: abbots
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...brief question-and-answer session following the performance, the vice abbot of the monks explained that the practice of throat singing was actually developed to intentionally and necessarily obfuscate the words of the liturgical texts performed...
Clad in traditional ochre robes, the group was comprised of thirteen singing monks and accompanied by one attendant monk who acted as a shrine master and a silent performer of offerings, serving the vice abbot of their own Gyuto Tantric University. The monks came to Harvard under the aegis of WorldMusic/CRASHarts, an organization for the advancement of international arts funded in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council...
...Crimson’s has accelerated this process a bit by making it retroactive, and as such allows us a small taste of what’s to come. Much of the information therein is more or less innocuous: it’s unlikely that the family of E.Q. Abbot ’06 (that’s 1906) is going to be terribly embarrassed by his chess defeat at the hands of A. Breese of Yale in November of 1904, particularly given that the Harvard team won out in the end. The great great grandchildren of Joseph M. Cromwell...
...karaoke. Even better than belting out the words to Gloria Gaynor’s karaoke classic “I Will Survive” was the visit the group took to the Shaolin Temple as guests of the municipal government. There, they got to attend tea with the abbot of the temple, who was flanked by an entourage of 27 bodyguards. “There were all sorts of things [at the temple] that seem taken straight from legend,” said David J. Henderson ’07. “There were several trees, probably...
...Samuel Abbot...