The monks reach inside themselves to produce this music, and in doing so allow the listener an opportunity to extend to those same depths. Hart once said, in discussing this work, “The Dalai Lama once ...

In the 16th century, England’s Henry VIII broke with the pope, established the Church of England and named himself its supreme head—a sequence of events now known as the Reformation. By that point, ...

Most of us can recite the lyrics to our favorite songs by heart, give or take a few lines, but it would seem ridiculous to expect even the most diehard music fan to remember several days’ worth of ...

HEILIGENKREUZ, Austria (AP) Working to reach No. 1 on the charts? Try praying. That's how the monks of Heiligenkreuz Abbey found fame. Their compilation of Gregorian chants, a form of sung prayer, has ...

For the first time in nearly five centuries, Buckland Abbey in Devon will resonate once more with the sacred sounds of monastic music, thanks to research into a rare 15th-century manuscript and a ...

Eastern culture often seems far removed from our mostly Western sensibilities. Epistemologically speaking, when the most New Worlders hear the word "chant" in relation to music, we immediately think ...

Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. Tuesday for "Sacred Music Sacred Dance," a performance by Tibetan monks being held in conjunction with the visit in September to UB of His Holiness the Dali Lama.

HIGHLAND -- As a young child in his native Tibet, Wang Chan knew he wanted to be a Buddhist monk. At 13, he escaped his Communist-occupied country and journeyed to southern India, where he began his ...