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 ...

Buddhist nun Miao Ben and members of Taiwanese death metal band Dharma pose for photographs during a rehearsal in Taipei. (Sam Yeh / AFP / Getty Images) Five men walked onstage one Saturday night in ...

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 ...

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