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, ...

Amid the chanting of sutras, the sounding of gongs and the curling smoke of burning incense. Chief Abbot Oda Sesso was ordaining a head priest for the Zen Buddhist temple of Daitokuji Ryosen-An in ...

Monks pray at Nanshan Temple in Sanya, Hainan Province of China. Chen Wenwu/VCG via Getty Images Many people in the West interpret Buddhism as a path of meditation leading to enlightenment. What many ...

As a man beats a Moktak, others follow the tempo of the traditional Korean wooden percussion instrument with a steady chant. “Shin-myo jang-gu dae-da-ra-ni …” Words from the work of The Great Dharani ...

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 ...

•Other groups who practice meditation at the Community Building include the Spokane •Vipassana Community (www.spokanevipassana.com), the Teen Dharma Circle, Benefaction Sangha (call Eileen at ...

Buddha Purnima 2026: The day marking the birth of prince Siddhartha Gautama - founder of Buddhism is being celebrated widely today ( May 1) this year. Those celebrating the occasion, including many ...

Nestled between a defunct bike shop and a vacuum store, the Ann Arbor Zen Buddhist Temple is easy to notice and just as easy to miss. The bright yellow Victorian and the adjacent brick building don’t ...