Some of our listeners collect sounds when they travel. One of them is Scott Van Dutton from Oceanside, Calif. He shares a soundclip of the sounds of Buddhist chanting in Nara, just outside Kyoto, ...

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 ...

Dennis Sage never planned on becoming a Buddhist. He used to consider himself not a particularly religious or philosophical person. When he was introduced to the Nichiren school of Buddhism in 1979, ...

Reviewed Work: Fan Bai: Chinese Buddhist Monastic Chants. (Recent Researches in the Oral Traditions of Music, 8) Pi-Yen Chen The Music Library Association’s journal, Notes, provides interesting, ...

We've heard about rock stars missing gigs because they've had a few too many drinks, but being deep in a Buddhist meditation is new to us. And probably new to Amy Winehouse too! Amy is apparently ...