The Four Immeasurables - audio recording of Tibetan version?

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WJ77
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The Four Immeasurables - audio recording of Tibetan version?

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Hi, I am trying to find an audio recording of The Four Immeasurables, recited by a Tibetan (Central Tibetan or Amdo Tibetan). Does anyone know of any online source for such a recording? I know the FPMT has various audio recordings of prayers, but I find them quite distracting in that many of them are not recited by people who speak Tibetan fluently (if at all), and the tone of the voices (and the "melodies" etc.) remind me more of Sunday school than a monastery.
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The Four Immeasurables

སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་བདེ་བ་དང་བའི་རྒྱུ་དང་ལྡད་པར་གྱུར་ཅིག
Sem chen tam che de wa dang de we gyu dang den par gyur chig
May all sentient beings have happiness and the causes of happiness

སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་སྡུག་བསྔལ་དང་སྡུག་བསྔལ་གྱི་རྒྱུ་དང་བྲལ་བར་གྱུར་ཅིག
Sem chen tam che dug ngal dang dug ngal gyi gyu dang drel war gyur chig
May all senient beings be free from suffering and the causes of suffering

སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་སྡུག་བསྔལ་མེད་པའི་བདེ་བ་དང་མིན་འབྲལ་བར་གྱུར་ཅིག
Sem chen tam che dug ngal meh pe de wa dang min drel war gyur chig
May all senitent beings never be separated from the happiness that knows no suffering

སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་ཉེ་རིང་ཆགས་ཆང་གཉིས་དང་རྟལ་བའི་བདང་ངོམས་ལ་དནས་པར་གྱུར་ཅིག
Sem chen tam che nye ring chag chang nyi dang drel we dang ngom la nes par gyur chig
May all sentient beings live in equanimity, free from attachment, hatred (aggression) and aversion (prejudice)
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Re: The Four Immeasurables - audio recording of Tibetan version?

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Poke around here, there is a recording of my teacher singing it, pretty nice IMO.
http://www.nalandaolywa.org/talks.php

The Four Immeasurable part start at about 3:58.

AFAIK the melody was more of a spontaneous thing than learned, but you can get the vibe and go with it.

If the player isn't working in your browser, use the 'download' link.
Meditate upon Bodhicitta when afflicted by disease

Meditate upon Bodhicitta when sad

Meditate upon Bodhicitta when suffering occurs

Meditate upon Bodhicitta when you are scared

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Look under the Oct 2014 to Mar 2015 tab btw.
Meditate upon Bodhicitta when afflicted by disease

Meditate upon Bodhicitta when sad

Meditate upon Bodhicitta when suffering occurs

Meditate upon Bodhicitta when you are scared

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Re: The Four Immeasurables - audio recording of Tibetan version?

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Hi Johnny, Thank you. I'll take a look over this weekend.
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