“Without any question, they represent the spirit and culture of Tibet at its highest level.” –Philip Glass, composer UC Santa Cruz Arts & Lectures presents the beautiful and spiritual Tantric chanting ...

Experts at the National Library of Norway believe the liturgical songbook was made by a local artisan around A.D. 1200.

Presumably, there was a time when the Drepung Loseling Monastery could have assembled a debate team to put Princeton’s to shame. Presumably, because, at its zenith, the Tibetan monastery attracted ...

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 ...

HEILIGENKREUZ, Austria (AP) - Working to reach No. 1 on the charts? Try praying. That's how the monks of Heiligenkreuz Abbey found fame. Their compilation of Gregorian chants, a form of sung prayer, ...

An Austrian man entered the monkhood at a Buddhist monastery in Kalasin to dedicate merit to Her Majesty Queen Sirikit, the ...