They are chanting for every living thing." At first, in my attempts to capture this music in an album review, I was afraid that Tibetan Chants for World Peace would have a very small niche audience. I ...

Monks at Musikfest will set the tone for a peaceful yet energetic festival this year. The Tibetan monks of the Drepung Loseling Monastery will perform for several days, starting with a mandala sand ...

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 ...

Mention “musical monks” to most people, and what they usually think of are Benedictine Friars singing Gregorian chants. But Catholicism isn’t the only faith with a monastic music tradition; Buddhist ...

Ithaca, N.Y. — The Tibetan Buddhists have finished two of four new buildings which comprise the Du Khor Choe Ling Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies. Located on 28-acres of land less than ...

Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will construct a White Tara (Buddha for longevity and success) mandala sand painting and perform special ceremonies August 10-13 at Asia Society ...

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