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  Not my music taste, but someone can find this helpful. Ways to spread Dharma and Buddhism... When death metal becomes one of 84,000 ways to practise Buddhism Taiwan’s Dharma takes the raw energy of the genre that emerged in the US in the mid-80s on a new, more blissful turn. https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/12/28/when-death-metal-becomes-one-of-84000-ways-to-practise-buddhism Taipei, Taiwan – In the past few years, many of Taiwan’s largest music festivals have seen the unlikely ensemble of a shaven Buddhist nun introducing a band of five black-clad musicians whose faces are smeared blood red. When the first riffs break through the sound system, their hard yet atmospheric music immediately sounds like death metal – an extreme sub-genre of heavy metal that emerged in the United States in the mid-1980s and is characterised by guttural vocals, abrupt tempo and relentless, discording guitar riffs. Taiwan’s Dharma are probably the first band in the world to combine ancient Buddhist

 NIRVANA EXPRESS Now a new book has been published called The Nirvana Express: How Indian spirituality found home in the West. I haven't read it yet but been reading reviews and for sure it is interesting book: https://thefederal.com/category/features/the-nirvana-express-review-how-indian-spirituality-found-home-in-the-west-101553 Mick Brown’s exploration of Indian enlightenment in the West, and the adoption of yoga as a tool for or healthy living and spiritual salvation, may feel a bit incomplete, but it’s eminently readable Brown also tell us about the attraction Buddhism had in the West, about Westerners who embraced  Indian spirituality, about Mehar Baba, about Jiddu Krishnamurti (who broke many hearts when he dramatically turned from a young guru to an anti-guru), about Paul Brunton, whose classic, A Sear ch in Secret India (1934), earned the saintly Ramana Maharshi innumerable Western followers, and the disgraced ‘boy God’ Guru Maharaj Ji (Prem Pal Singh Rawat) whose claim to