Maintaining a balanced approach to music is a shared challenge in all religions. Depending on the context in which music is used in religious activities, it is either praised as a powerful medium to please the divine or condemned as a sensual allurement that hinders spiritual advancement. This study discusses the treatment of vocal and instrumental music as well as the allied category of dance in Buddhism. Specifically, it analyzes the regulations of different forms of musical activities in Buddhist canon law and their subsequent interpretation in Tibet and China
The baiqi (Buddhist percussive instruments), also known as faqi (dharma instruments), are mentioned ...
famous for their singing and dancing. Although the Buddha advised both monks and laypeople to abstai...
Ceremonial music in Japan is a type of music used to celebrate special occasions in special places, ...
ii How is it possible that monastic Buddhist musical practice in China, fiercely quashed a few decad...
The integration of Confucian ideologies in China’s ritual music has so far not been thoroughly under...
This dissertation investigates the development of Chinese Buddhist songs in the twentieth century fo...
This dissertation explores Buddhist chanting practices in mainly the Tang dynasty (618–907 CE), show...
This dissertation explores Buddhist chanting practices in mainly the Tang dynasty (618–907 CE), show...
[[abstract]]Music closely correlates with religions in the cultural systems developed by human being...
[[abstract]]Music closely correlates with religions in the cultural systems developed by human being...
In Minnan, southern Fujian, China, a complex ritual performance carried out by ritual specialists af...
Analysis of the cultural and musical discourse surrounding Buddhist and Daoist ritual and liturgical...
[[abstract]]This study is the ritual music of Pu-An sect in Fa-Jiao at the Pescadores. Especially, i...
In Japan, explicitly religious content is not commonly found in popular music. Against this mainstre...
Beixinzhuang village, with a population o f about one thousand, is located in the suburbs of Beijin...
The baiqi (Buddhist percussive instruments), also known as faqi (dharma instruments), are mentioned ...
famous for their singing and dancing. Although the Buddha advised both monks and laypeople to abstai...
Ceremonial music in Japan is a type of music used to celebrate special occasions in special places, ...
ii How is it possible that monastic Buddhist musical practice in China, fiercely quashed a few decad...
The integration of Confucian ideologies in China’s ritual music has so far not been thoroughly under...
This dissertation investigates the development of Chinese Buddhist songs in the twentieth century fo...
This dissertation explores Buddhist chanting practices in mainly the Tang dynasty (618–907 CE), show...
This dissertation explores Buddhist chanting practices in mainly the Tang dynasty (618–907 CE), show...
[[abstract]]Music closely correlates with religions in the cultural systems developed by human being...
[[abstract]]Music closely correlates with religions in the cultural systems developed by human being...
In Minnan, southern Fujian, China, a complex ritual performance carried out by ritual specialists af...
Analysis of the cultural and musical discourse surrounding Buddhist and Daoist ritual and liturgical...
[[abstract]]This study is the ritual music of Pu-An sect in Fa-Jiao at the Pescadores. Especially, i...
In Japan, explicitly religious content is not commonly found in popular music. Against this mainstre...
Beixinzhuang village, with a population o f about one thousand, is located in the suburbs of Beijin...
The baiqi (Buddhist percussive instruments), also known as faqi (dharma instruments), are mentioned ...
famous for their singing and dancing. Although the Buddha advised both monks and laypeople to abstai...
Ceremonial music in Japan is a type of music used to celebrate special occasions in special places, ...