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, has stormed pop music charts ...

“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 ...

Across cultures and centuries, humanity has kept creating communities of people whose full-time vocation is literally to hold ...

A siren screamed down 31st Street as six men faced one another in a dim church and began to chant. They chanted standing up. They chanted bent over. Above a thumping bass from a passing car, they ...

Four Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Gaden Shartse Monastery in India began a three-day visit to the Spiritual Center of the Desert on Tuesday, May 5. This visit is part of their Sacred Harmony World ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. AMORGOS, Greece (AP) — For more than 50 ...

In March, I walked the sprawling grounds of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, an 11th-century monastery and a UNESCO World Heritage ...

Seven monks from the Drepung Gomang Monastery arrived in Laguna Beach last weekend, and a week of work began taking shape. Returning to the coastal community for the first time since 2019, their daily ...

AMORGOS, Greece (AP) — For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a seaside cliff that's little changed since its founding ...