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, ...

[1] Zen, Goeika, and Shomyo chants in actual Buddhist temple services -- [2] Japanese temple music : Zen, Nembutsu, and Yamabushi chants ...

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 ...

Bodhgaya is preparing for the 20th International Tripitaka Chanting Ceremony in December 2025, a significant event for the global Buddhist community. Pawa, the acclaimed Buddhist singer and composer, ...

Katherine Scahill, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Music, has always been interested in the overlap of music and mindfulness. She grew up playing the violin, and, as an undergraduate at ...

Jan Bright is the guardian of about 30 abandoned and/or feral cats and kittens in Berkeley. She tames the felines by chanting Tibetan Buddhist prayers so that they can be fixed and adopted out to ...

Cyber NamuNamu exists somewhere between the realms of religious ritual and the club. Part concert, part art exhibition, it’s a project that slips past genre dividers, adapting to its surroundings.