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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 ...

A new Gregorian chant CD by a group of Benedictine monks in Norcia, Italy, debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's classical music chart last week. The album, "Benedicta," was also the top overall seller at ...

Tibetan monks work on peace mandala in Jerusalem's Tower of David. The sounds of Tibetan monks chanting, an Iranian playing the santoor, western African style music, Rastafarian and reggae beats, as ...

Salina? The journey toward nirvana begins early for the Buddhist monks at their temple compound northwest of Salina. A Buddhist monk carries American and Kansas flags at daybreak Friday, Oct. 28, 2011 ...

A little bit of Tibet had transplanted itself among the stacks of books and studying students inside the University of Puget Sound’s Collins Memorial Library on Saturday. Three crimson-robed Buddhist ...

It was 3 o'clock one morning in 1964, on the eve of the highest holiday in the Tibetan calendar, when renowned religion scholar Huston Smith awoke in a monastery in the Himalayas to experience ...