BUDDHIST SONGS FROM ASIA
True Friendship (Sinhalese)
Duration: 2 mins 40 secs
This song, sung in Sinhalese and recorded by Sri Lankan musical group Metta is a production of Lotus Communication Network. The song is based on Sigalovada Sutra - Buddha's advice to young Sigala - on how to cultivate good friends.
Singer: Udani Pabasara Liyanage
Composer: Darshana Ashoka Kumara
Concept: Dr Kalinga Seneviratne
Mind Matters (Sinhalese)
Duration: 3 mins 10 secs
This song is also sung in Sinhalese and recorded by the Sri Lankan musical group Metta. It is a production of Lotus Communication Network. The song is based on the importance of the mind in Buddhist practice. It explains how a well tamed mind bestows pleasure and happiness to life.
Singer: Muditha Ranga Abeysinghe
Composer: Darshana Ashoka Kumara
Concept: Dr Kalinga Seneviratne
During these pandemic days its a shame for our civilization that we are not being kind to the migrant workers returning to their homelands from their workplaces due to the announcement of lockdown ....we are being inhuman with them in fear of contamination of disease and selfishness... centuries back the Buddhist monk Upagupta conquered this fear , nursed Basavdutta with his own hands and saved her life. Basavdutta, as mentioned by Nobel Laureate and Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore in his poem Abhisar, was once an esteemed court dancer of Mathura suffering from a deadly contagious disease and disowned by her near and dear ones.
Meeting With My Soulmate (Bengali)
Duration: 7 mins 50 secs
The mesmerized Basavdutta expresses heroverwhelming emotions to this compassionate soul, her soulmate,the young Buddhist monk. Mesmerized are we by the sincere effort of the doctors and medical support team working tirelessly to save our lives. This song from Rabindranath Tagore's Geetanjali is dedicated to them and inspired by KarunaforCorona, an initiative of International Buddhist Confederation IBC. This is a production of Attodeep in Kolkata, directed by Madhusree Chowdhury.
Oh Suffering World (English)
Duration: 3 mins 15 secs
Special Note About Singer:
"Oh, Suffering World" is a beautiful song sung by Oh Kim Leng when he was still in the Specialist Teachers Training College in Kuala Lumpur. I brought him into the Wayfarers when we were working on our first album. Three years later in 1985, when he graduated with a Gold Award of Distinction, he was sent to Sarawak as a teacher trainee. While bringing his students to bathe in a river in the Sarawakian jungle, he fractured his spinal cord and was paralysed from neck down. Although still paralyzed, Kim Leng is a much sought-after tuition teacher for Bahasa Malaysia in Melaka. Kim Leng continues to be an inspiring figure. Unfortunately, he can no longer sing like what he did in the album because he has no control over his lungs and diaphragm, which are required for singing and voice control.
- Dr Victor Wee, Founder of Wayfarers
Wayfarers is a Buddhist musical group in Malaysia set up in the 1980s by Dr Victor Wee. This song from Wayfarers focus on a very important aspect of the dhamma - the concept of Suffering.
Sung by Oh Kim Leng
Music by Wayfarers
Composer Tan Huat Chye
Parinibbana
(Bhasa Indonesian)
Duration: 4 mins 45 secs
This song was composed to pay homage to the Buddha on Vesak day and it focus on his parinibbana (passing away). This is an Indonesian Buddhist song.
Sung by Lyna.
Written by Darmadi Tiahiadi
From the Album "Everlasting Karaoke Buddhist Songs
Contentment (Sinhalese)
Duration: 2 mins 55 secs
An important element of Buddhist teachings is contentment. This song asks ‘why do you get upset with what you don’t get but be happy with what you can get’. Wisdom sans craving is the greatest achievement. This is a production of Lotus Communication Network.
Sung by Udani Pabasara Liyanage
Music by Metta Group
Composed by Dharshana Ashoka Kumara
Concept by Dr Kalinga Seneviratne
Sunset @ Sea
(Thailand)
Duration: 4 mins 23 secs
"Sunset @ sea" is a piece of meditation music that presents the mood of the sunset atmosphere like you are looking at the golden sun has just gone while it is slowly touching the border of the oceanline. Then it is the sign for you to take a rest. So you are going to finish the busy working day when the sun light fade away. The sound of the crystal singing bowls will adjust your brain wave from beta state to alpha state that will release your stress, tension and negative emotions and make your body & mind fully relaxed.
Artist : Bee Bee Navapan
I Have No Hatred
(Sinhalese)
Duration: 4 mins
Even though he harass me, insults me, defeats me and steals from me, I don’t have hatred for him. My hatred has dissipated. This is the message of this song sung in Sinhalese. This is a Lotus Communication Network production.
Sung by Chamara Hapangama and Muditha Ranga Abeysinghe. Music by Metta Group. Composed by Dharshana Asoka Kumara. Concept Dr Kalinga Seneviratne.
Pure Mind
(Sinhalese)
Duration: 2 mins 46 sec
A pure mind creates a better future for mankind. Somethings your parents, relatives and friends cannot do for you, you could do with a pure mind. If you have a pure mind no one can defeat you. These thoughts are reflected in this song sung in Sinhala. This is a Lotus Communication Network production.
Sung by Udani Pabasara Liyanage. Music by Metta Group. Composed by Dharshana Asoka Kumara. Concept Dr Kalinga Seneviratne.
Value of Mother
(Sinhalese)
Duration: 2 mins 27 secs
This song reflects on the value of a mother to bring happiness to the household. Sung in Sinhalese this is a production of Lotus Communication Network.
Sung by Chamara Hapangama. Music by Metta Group. Composed by Dharshana Asoka Kumara.
