གཎ་ཌའ་མད notes.3

notes.3

3. As noted by ethnomusicologist Mireille Helffer, “The oldest writings on Indian Buddhism mention an instrument, the gandi, used to call monks to assembly. Recent observations show an instrument called gandi, or ganti, used similarly in Tibetan monasteries. Other recent texts confirm that the old gandi, like the modern version, is a phonoxyle; its shape is similar to that of certain wooden semanterions used in Greek Orthodox monasteries. The prescriptions of the canonical writings are still followed, and the Tibetan Buddhists, faithful to a tradition received from India, continue to build and use the gandi.” Helffer (1983), p. 112.