RAKSHA MANCHAM (The Dance Of The Judgement Of The Dead) is an old tibetan Buddhist Ceremony of Dance. It describes what happens after death, the importance of 'good' and 'bad' acts, and the judgement of the dead men, as ananswer for that they did in their lives. In that way, Raksha Mancham denounces human beiings, social groups, communities, peoples, nations, humanuty and expecially, inhumanity...for that they did: 'bad' or 'wrong'. RAKSHA MANCHAM approach is political. It intends to make people think by themselves, through presenting the side effects of the industrial society and the criticizable facts in the human history. No-one is protected as too many things are an object of judgement: genocides, ethnocides or culturcides: torture, xenophobia, racism, political imprisonment, environmental Destruction.... The music of RAKSHA MANCHAM is violent, aggressive. In fact it is a view of the world, of life in earth in the late XXth century, in thisnearly dead world. This music based on a post-industrial dark view of life. The structure is tribal, the rhythm is primitive, because we must find prima rhythms that exist in each person, deeply hidden by commercializing plans. And we use drums as a central element in our project because in numerous tradition cultures, drums are privilileged bound between man and the spiritual or the sacred. PHYIDAR may be defined as the second broadcasting of the (Buddhist) Doctrine'in Tibet. It has dep connections with the history pf Buddhism, as Buddhism was initially introduced in Tibet during the VIIth century and was eclipsed during the late IXth , the Xth and the early XIth Century. There was a second ÒbroadcastingÓ of the (Buddhist) doctrine in Tibet in the early XIth Century. All benefits from this Compact Disc will be given to the Tibetan Youth Congress, a worldwide organisation that struggles for the restoration of the complete indipendence of Tibet. Its aim is also to work for the preservation and promotion of Tibet 's unique culture, religion and traditions.
		RAKSHA MANCHAM PHYIDAR format: CD catalogue number: eee 13
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