That same year, Hart invited fourteen monks to his home studio to record Tibetan Chants for World Peace (White Swan Records). In order to reproduce something like the authentic, time-honored sound of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The latest sensation on the world's pop charts is 800-years-old. Gregorian chants performed by the Cistercian monks of Austria's Heiligenkreuz Abbey. (Soundbite of Gregorian Chants) SEABROOK: Monks ...

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 ...

HIGHLAND -- As a young child in his native Tibet, Wang Chan knew he wanted to be a Buddhist monk. At 13, he escaped his Communist-occupied country and journeyed to southern India, where he began his ...