Some of our listeners collect sounds when they travel. One of them is Scott Van Dutton from Oceanside, Calif. He shares a soundclip of the sounds of Buddhist chanting in Nara, just outside Kyoto, ...

The teachings of Lord Buddha are still relevant today, some two thousand five hundred years after his demise; Buddhism is regarded as the 4th largest religion in the world, with some several million ...

``Beompae" are chants and songs inspired by Buddha's sacred words. Performed in Buddhist temples during special ceremonies, they have the function of training in harmony with Buddha's teaching by ...

A Bengali play about the Buddha has adapted ancient Buddhist music, collected from monasteries across the globe, on stage. Music transcends all barriers, they say. But when it comes to music ...

[1] Zen, Goeika, and Shomyo chants in actual Buddhist temple services -- [2] Japanese temple music : Zen, Nembutsu, and Yamabushi chants Repository Loc. Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife ...

A Japanese monk who “makes music for anxiety and less suffering” is being rewarded with millions of listeners. Yogetsu Akasaka, a 37-year-old Zen Buddhist monk, uses a loop station to combine and ...

During the pandemic, when live performances came to a halt, Mahagami, the Aurangabad-based dance gurukul, reimagined ways to keep learners and artistes engaged. Along with organising online webinars ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X A low, grounded Buddhist chant to unleash compassion and a long, melodious reading of verses from ...

Japanese Zen Buddhist monk Yogetsu Akasaka creates fantastically relaxing, immersive sounds and shares them online with his legions of followers. He does it in incongruously hi-tech fashion, using his ...