After a video of him chanting Prajnaparamitahrdaya ... Yoshihara said Prajnaparamitahrdaya illustrates the important Buddhist concept of sunyata (emptiness) and is typically performed at funerals ...

The monks perfected the practice of shomyo, a melodic singing of Buddhist sutras, and in its heyday the village had as many as 50 practice halls. Ohara also was a sanctuary for nuns, and is known ...

She explains, “It was a dream of Kalu Rinpoche, a great Buddhist master from Tibet and a contemporary of the Dalai Lama, to have Tibetan chants sung in Sanskrit, since he felt the effect of the ...