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Luocanggengga

05-2152Buddhist MusicTraditional MusicHuangzhong, QinghaiBatch 5 (2018)

Lineage & School of Heritage

In 1982 he entered the Jiezun Zengzha (Upper Flower Courtyard) of Kumbum Monastery, where he studied the reading of Tibetan musical notation and the performance skills of the dizi, guanzi and other instruments under Xiangqu Gele and Awang Jiancuo.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, Tibetan, born in August 1965, a native of Huangzhong County, Qinghai Province. He has systematically mastered the ten pieces performed by the Huajia (Flower Frame) ensemble of Kumbum Monastery. His ability to read notation is strong, he can interpret the entire body of Tibetan gongche notation, and he is thoroughly proficient in the performance skills of the dizi, guanzi, Tibetan-style suona and yunluo (cloud gongs). He has also conducted in-depth research on the repertoire, performance methods and ensemble arrangement of Huajia music. He began performing Huajia music in 1983. From 2004 he began teaching student monks the performance techniques of the dizi, guanzi and other instruments, together with the skills of reading numbered musical notation and Tibetan gongche notation.

Honors & Recognition

National representative bearer of Buddhist Music (Huajia Music of Tibetan Buddhism at Kumbum Monastery), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.

References & Archival Sources

  1. Luocanggengga · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item
Buddhist Music
Item code
Ⅱ-138
Category
Traditional Music
Region
Huangzhong, Qinghai
Born
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Batch
Batch 5 (2018)

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