NEW DELHI (ANI) – The vast mosaic of Indian culture has long been shaped by the spiritual, the philosophical, and the transcendent. Yet, few forces have been as profoundly influential as Buddhism, an ...

Sixty years of French colonialism followed by the last 30 years of communist rule has done little to mute centuries of entrenched Buddhism in the tiny Asian country of Laos. These recordings (made in ...

The musician strummed his dragon-headed lute, launching a nervous young woman into a high-pitched, ululating song broadcast live across the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. The judges' were ...

The 2001 North American Buddhist Music Festival presents “Sounds of the Ganges River” and “Praying for a Pure Land of Harmony on Earth” at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, 300 E.

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 ...

The festival is a rare combination of Buddhist and Shinto traditions, as a shrine and temple jointly run it. The festivities center around the 18 four-meter-tall floats known as Hikiyama. Each float ...