A scene from a five-day fesetival on ``beompae'' or chants and songs inspired by Buddha's sacred words that took place in 2004 at National Theater of Korea in Seoul. The Buddhist chants and songs are ...

Japanese Buddhist monks strutted their stuff Wednesday in a contest highlighting sutra chanting skills, giving funeral sermons and, surprisingly, loud karate chops. The contest, held on the sidelines ...

[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 ...

SALINA — The journey toward nirvana begins early for the Buddhist monks at their temple compound northwest of Salina. The four orange-robed “Buddha men” stir before 6 a.m. One by one they descend the ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai temple cat's bid for affection during five-hour-long New Year prayers was enough to test the patience of a Buddhist monk as he tried to maintain his chanting concentration.

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, ...

Ven Tinh, a Vietnamese monk, said, "Lord Buddha stated that violence can never be stopped by violence. Only non-violence can put an end to it. This is now the universal law. Many Buddhist scholars ...

Buddhist monks in China have harnessed technology to create a robot monk. The 2-foot tall robot is called Xian’er and can chant Buddhist mantras, move via voice command and even hold a simple ...