Data base 1:
Kharnatsang Collection of Skad (KCS)
A collection of ké (Wyl. skad, ~ melodic units) from the Menri lineage of the Yungdrung Bön Tradition of Tibet, based on the ké-kyi-jé-tra (Wyl. skad kyi bye brag) manuscripts of Gyalchab Yunggyan (རྒྱལ་ཚབ་གཡུང་རྒྱན།), Tsultrim Gyaltsen (ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་རྒྱལ་མཚན།), ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་ཡེ་ཤེས། (Tsultrim Yéshé), and the Menri kang-gyer (Wal. bskang gyer).
Data base 2:
Menri kang-bum
A compilation of all kang-wa (Wyl. bskang ba) as performed in the Protector Temple (PT) of Menri Monastery at the occasion of the kang-bum (Wyl. bskang ’bum), the performance of all kang-wa during one night.
Data base 3:
Gyer-yang: The slow chant of the Bön tradition
Gyer-yang is the slow ritual chant of the Tibetan tradition of Yungdrung Bön.
A gyer-yang data base with the video demonstrations, related manuscripts and transcriptions connected to the „Tropur“ ritual and the ritual on the „Protectors of Bön“ can be found –> here.
A summary on how to read the video demonstrations and some basic research on gyer yang can be found –> here.
The above research has been made possible through the artistic research project „The Five Elements – Electroacoustics meets Bön“ at Folkwang University of the Arts.
VERYBön e.V.
Society for the research of the ritual music and ritual dance of the Yungdrng Bön tradition (German only):
Der Verein zur Erforschung der Ritualmusik des Yungdrung Bön e.V. möchte weitere künstlerische und musikwissenschaftliche Forschungen zur Ritualmusik des tibetischen Yungdrung Bön ermöglichen. –> Zur Seite des Vereins.