It isn't every day that a group of 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, ...

Karma Meditation Tracks, Traditional Asian Zen Spa Music Meditation with Tibetan Singing Bowls and Tibetan Monk Chants. Holistic Music, Buddha Meditation Song, Healing Buddha Monk Chant Trance, ...

HEILIGENKREUZ, Austria - 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 ...

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 ...

Mention “musical monks” to most people, and what they usually think of are Benedictine Friars singing Gregorian chants. But Catholicism isn’t the only faith with a monastic music tradition; Buddhist ...

“Music for Paradise” was released in England on May 19, few people expected an overnight sensation. Tenth-century Gregorian chant may have its admirers, but it’s not exactly the latest thing to hit ...

Eastern culture often seems far removed from our mostly Western sensibilities. Epistemologically speaking, when the most New Worlders hear the word "chant" in relation to music, we immediately think ...

One of the great comforts in the weeks that followed my son's unexpected birth four weeks early was an album that arrived for me to review, Benedicta: Marian Chant from Norcia from the Monks of Norcia ...