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 ...

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 ...

Gyuto monks of Tibet recording their chanting the RN studios.(ABC RN/Geoff Wood) Last week RN ran into some rather unusual technical difficulties. A group of Tibetan Gyuto monks came in to record a ...

It’s a very intimate thing.” Being a monk is a disputable claim for some followers, with the strict orthodox followers requiring three separate initiations to make it official. Fladlien is of a ...

Basil Nixen always felt a special closeness to God and now the Arizona native who became a monk is sharing that closeness with the rest of the world through a top-selling album of Gregorian chants.

Gregorian chanting, he’s not: Behold, in the video above, 62-year-old Capuchin monk Cesare Bonizzi, a Rip Van Winkle-looking friar who — when he’s not worshipping God — is worshipping the gods of ...

With the Wild Magnolias albums, Willie Tee created a template for Mardi Gras Indian funk that reverberates to this day, a time that finds an unprecedented number of Indians onstage and recording.