Located just two hours drive east of Tbilisi, Bodbe Monastery nestles between tall Cyprus trees on a steep hillside overlooking the Alezani valley, where it commands incredible views of the Great ...

The undulating, ethereal vocalizations of a choir of men chanting melodies in Greek seem to transcend space and time, sweeping back the veil separating Heaven and Earth. It could have be ...

Benedictine monks sing at the Monastery of the Holy Cross in Bridgeport. Credit: The Monastery of the Holy Cross Nestled two miles from downtown Chicago in Bridgeport, a neighborhood that once had the ...

“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 ...

Maryland’s first Carmelite monastery continues its hidden life of prayer as the sisters prepare for the arrival of St.

CHICAGO -- 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 ...

It isn't every day that Catholic monks find themselves on the pop charts. Yet that's what happened to the monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz, a 12th-century Cistercian monastery near Vienna, whose CD of ...

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 ...