Buddha Sakya had its first public show last month where they performed rock and roll style Buddhist music at Mako Livehouse. Photo: Courtesy of Gu Peiwen As the soft sound of the flute and the sanxian ...

``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 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 ...

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More than 60 monks from the Chinese mainland left Xiamen Sunday for Taiwan. They will perform Chinese Buddhist music together with their counterparts in the island province and embark on a tour to ...

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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 ...