Music from Song dynasty - Suo Nan Zhi played by the Buddhist orchestra ... This piece is called Suo Nan Zhi, and is a type of folk music popularised during the Ming.

There were spirit mediums in attendance at the Nat shrines, who provided the wild music and led ... came to forget the pre-Buddhist and primitive origins of their folk beliefs in alchemy ...

with an eye toward overlaps between liturgical music and contemporary popular forms, as well as rural folk traditions. His other research interests include Japanese Buddhist chant, American and Irish ...