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unusual facts about Mantra-Rock Dance


The Avalon

On January 29, 1967 it hosted the Mantra-Rock Dance musical event, organized by the local Hare Krishna temple, which featured Hare Krishna founder Bhaktivedanta Swami, along with Allen Ginsberg, The Grateful Dead, Moby Grape and Big Brother and the Holding Company, with Janis Joplin.


And It's Beautiful

The song features a mantra chant interlude, which is an activity Brad Roberts had taken up (along with Yoga) during the band's hiatus (and formed the basis for his side-project Satsang Circus).

Army of the Pharaohs

Two songs, "Godzilla" and "Contra Mantra", were released before the album.

BigPond

In November 2009 Telstra chief executive David Thodey promised a "new Telstra" which will be much more responsive to its customers in a bid to improve the telco's corporate reputation, stating that the new mantra at Telstra would be "customer service, customer service, customer service", and announcing increases in speed and data allowances for BigPond customers.

Cloud Platform at Juyongguan

Stele of Sulaiman – a 1348 stele at the Mogao Caves with the Buddhist mantra Om mani padme hum inscribed in the same six scripts as at the Cloud platform.

Duo Zikr

Boris Grebenshikov (mantra), Djivan Gasparyan (duduk) and the world-known percussion player and Grammy-award-winner Evelyn Glennie (who worked with Björk) participated in the recording of Premonitions of the Shooting Star - one of recent joint creations of duo Zikr and sound producer Andrei Samsonov.

Eleven-Faced Avalokitesvara Heart Dharani Sutra

Some people believe that this dhāraṇī is told by the Eleven-Faced Avalokitesvara, an esoteric bodhisattva in Tibetan Buddhism, and that it is the equivalent Tibetan version of The Great Compassion Mantra in Mahayana Buddhism.

Exhibition Street, Melbourne

Melbourne's Marriott Hotel is situated on the corner of Exhibition Street and Lonsdale Street, in addition to a Rydges Hotel, and the Mantra at 100 Exhibition Street (formerly the Pacific International).

Inhale Positivity

It features spiritual and sensual self-help advice spoken by the iconic tones of the late Patrick Allen (a renowned voice over artist and actor), set to sunny club-friendly dance music and a vocoded chorus repeating the mantra "Inhale positivity, exhale negativity".

Mala badal

The two then exchange garlands, a ritual called "mala badal", amidst the blowing of conch shells and the sounding of "uloo dhani", while the purohit chants his mantras.

Mantra Films

, or Mantra Entertainment, is an American softcore pornography production company created by Joe Francis, chiefly for the production and distribution of the United States-based Girls Gone Wild and Guys Gone Wild media franchises.

MANTRA-Rajbhasha

The system is based on the MANTRA Technology developed by the Applied Artificial Intelligence Group (AAI) of C-DAC, Pune.

Meditation music

Specific works include Tony Scott's Music for Zen Meditation (1964), Karlheinz Stockhausen's Mantra (1970), Hymnen (1966–67), Stimmung (1968), and Aus den sieben Tagen (1968), Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time (1941), and Ben Johnston, whose Visions and Spells (a realization of Vigil (1976)), requires a meditation period prior to performance.

Mentat

The same mantra is also recited by the Harkonnen Mentat Hayt in the beginning of the House's campaign in the Dune 2000 (1998) video game before briefing the player on the first mission.

Montra

The term Montra, though rarely, is used as a girls name nowadays and should not be confused with the Indian word mantra, which is a religious or mystical syllable or poem, typically from the Sanskrit language.

Navras

The song contains an adaption of the Asato ma mantra found in the Hindu sacred text the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, section I.iii.28, used in the soundtrack of the movie trilogy The Matrix.

Neti

Neti neti, a chant or mantra in Hinduism, and in particular Jnana Yoga and Advaita Vedanta

Nīlakaṇṭha Dhāraṇī

This dhāraṇī stems from the Eleven-Faced Avalokitesvara Heart Dharani Sutra and is often somewhat incorrectly referred to as the Great Compassion Mantra, e.g. in popular recordings by Imee Ooi and Ani Choying Dolma.

Padme

Om mani padme hum, a mantra particularly associated with the four-armed Shadakshari form of Avalokiteśvara

Radio Mantra

Radio Mantra took many initiatives and supported movements like Earth Hour.

Ravishankar Raval

After taking leave of his lifelong devoted wife Ramaben, he closed his eyes with the ultimate sound of the holy mantra “Aum Namah Shivay” (Homage to Lord Shiva) on his lips.

Sawtooth Botanical Garden

The garden was built for a visit from the 14th Dalai Lama on September 13, 2005, who blessed the garden and a finely carved 400 pound Tibetan prayer wheel filled with over one million written mantras, one of only two such prayer wheels to be erected in the United States.

Scrum pattern

For instance "Timeboxing" is an answer to the optimism bias, that is one of the reason why the Mantra of agile software development and Lean software development is "Think big, act small, fail fast; learn rapidly" .

Tally counter

Shri Vidya initiates often use them to keep track of the number of repetitions of the Mula Mantra into which they are initiated.

The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron

The film offers the perspective of Cruver, played by Christian Kane, depicted as a brilliant but naïve young energy trader who was seduced by the company's "get rich quick" mantra.

The Jew in the Lotus

The title is a pun on the Tibetan mantra Om mani padme hum which is frequently misinterpreted as "hail to the jewel in the lotus."


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