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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
[1] Zen, Goeika, and Shomyo chants in actual Buddhist temple services -- [2] Japanese temple music : Zen, Nembutsu, and Yamabushi chants Repository Loc. Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife ...
Children learn to meditate in a training class organized by a Zen Buddhist center in Zhengzhou in Henan province, July 5, 2016. The class included programs including chanting, meditation, etiquette, ...
In silence, Jerry Ashmore lit two tiny candles and an incense stick in front of a small Buddhist statue on a makeshift altar in the old church. He clasped his hands together and respectfully bowed, ...
Torrey • The silence was deafening. For several minutes, about 75 teachers and students of Zen Buddhism stood in meditation in the newly constructed temple surrounded by the redrock monoliths that ...
As anyone who hasn’t spent the last few years meditating in a cave in Asia knows, American Buddhism is booming. The 1990s saw three Buddhist movies and a gaggle of celebrity Buddhist pitchmen, ...
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 ...