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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SHELBURNE — Tucked away down a rural Vermont road flanked by forest and farmland lies the two homes of Nōwa Randall: the Randolin Music Store and Vermont Zen Center. At Randolin, Randall makes, ...

Zen Buddhist priest and poet Manuel (The Deepest Peace) offers a counterpoint to Western Zen’s embrace of scientific theory in this refreshing take on promoting shamanism within Zen. The volume ...

The revered Zen Buddhist monk who helped pioneer the concept of mindfulness in the West and socially engaged Buddhism in the East, has died Thich Nhat Hanh, the revered Zen Buddhist monk who helped ...

The 14th Dalai Lama marks his 90th birthday on July 6, 2025, with which he is also the longest reigning one in the lineage of all the Dalai Lamas so far. His life has not only highlighted Tibetan ...