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 ...

Peace Through Knowledge campaign includes cocktail receptions, conferences. By Rebecca Leffler Dreaming of escaping the Croisette craziness to sniff essential oils and gather with Tibetan monks ...

Members of a local troupe perform Tibetan Opera at a park in Namling county, Xizang autonomous region, on July 17. LI XIN/XINHUA LHASA — As the drums rolled, performers wearing blue masks took to the ...

Protest interupts press tour of Buddhist monastery in Tibetan area. LABRANG MONASTERY, Gansu, China, April 9, 2008 — -- A Buddhist monk was handing over a white shawl to me, a Tibetan ritual used ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article analyzes the treatment of music in Buddhist monastic life through the rules on music in Buddhist canon law (vinaya) within the ...

The Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room includes more than two hundred bronzes, paintings, silk hangings, and carpets that were created in Tibet, China, and Mongolia between the thirteenth and early ...