On March 6, Japan Society will bring the venerated tradition of s homyo Buddhist chant, generally considered to be one of the oldest living forms of vocal music and one only rarely performed in the ...

"When praying to Buddha, one should utter each word clearly, without breaking the rhythm or prolonging a syllable. "When praying to Buddha, one should adjust one's pitch to accord with that of others.

Music for inner peace this week as we slow down and look within, a place many of us rarely visit. Afraid of what we’ll find, perhaps. But we’ll start by listening to our mind, with a Buddhist wisdom ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eastern culture often seems far removed from our mostly Western sensibilities. Epistemologically speaking, when the most New Worlders hear the word "chant" in relation to music, we immediately think ...

Starting with the Abbess Hildegard of Bingen, Tom explores how chant has resonated across a thousand years of music, taking in American Hopi and Buddhist chants and the Hildegurls. Show more The ...

Wutai Buddhist music, Shanxi intangible cultural heritage [Photo/wutaishan.city.sohu.com] Music is a major part of Mount Wutai, Shanxi province, going way back to ancient India and intangible part of ...