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 ...

HEILIGENKREUZ, Austria (AP) Working to reach No. 1 on the charts? Try praying. That's how the monks of Heiligenkreuz Abbey found fame. Their compilation of Gregorian chants, a form of sung prayer, has ...

HIGHLAND -- As a young child in his native Tibet, Wang Chan knew he wanted to be a Buddhist monk. At 13, he escaped his Communist-occupied country and journeyed to southern India, where he began his ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai temple cat's bid for affection during five-hour-long New Year prayers was enough to test the patience of a Buddhist monk as he tried to maintain his chanting concentration.

That same year, Hart invited fourteen monks to his home studio to record Tibetan Chants for World Peace (White Swan Records). In order to reproduce something like the authentic, time-honored sound of ...

In the 16th century, England’s Henry VIII broke with the pope, established the Church of England and named himself its supreme head—a sequence of events now known as the Reformation. By that point, ...

Venerable Thupten Donyo has been a Buddhist monk for more than half a century. Like tens of thousands of other Tibetans, he was born in exile. He’s spent years living in a temple in the Himalayas ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of Buddhist monks spent their night at the Nazareth Methodist Church in Leesville, S.C., after offering a blessing and ...

On a clear day this spring, I attended Mass at the Abbey of Keur Moussa, a Benedictine monastery about an hour’s drive from the Senegalese capital of Dakar. It wasn’t Sunday, and I’m not a Catholic.

TOKYO (Reuters) - He raps. He chants. And this month, Japan's famed hip-hop loving monk, better known as MC Happiness, will tap dance on stage, in the name of Buddhism. Kansho Tagai heads the 400-year ...