Sky Gazing Dzogchen, or Great Perfection, is a meditative tradition in Tibetan Buddhism that achieves spiritual awakening ...

The Dalai Lama is releasing an album, Inner World, on July 6 which is also the Tibetan spiritual leader’s 85th birthday. The album is a collection of chants and mantras, set to music for the first ...

Staci Matlock With a pair of metal cymbals tucked under his left arm and his eyes closed under his golden headdress, chant master Ven Ngawang Jinpa began a deep resonating chord, his voice forming ...

Seeking solace from rising anxiety and depression, millions are rediscovering ancient Indian spiritual practices. Chanting Sanskrit mantras like "Om Shantih" and "Om Asato Ma Sadgamaya" offers a ...

They are chanting for every living thing." At first, in my attempts to capture this music in an album review, I was afraid that Tibetan Chants for World Peace would have a very small niche audience. I ...

“As a Buddhist, I will visualize 1,000 Buddhas,“ Lama Tashi Norbu said. “I will receive the energies and try to transmit them to the people of Sonoma.” After a successful event at the Sonoma Community ...

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 ...

Monks at Musikfest will set the tone for a peaceful yet energetic festival this year. The Tibetan monks of the Drepung Loseling Monastery will perform for several days, starting with a mandala sand ...

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 ...