1) Buddhist music 
Honkyoku (本曲, `original pieces`) are the pieces of shakuhachi music played by mendicant Japanese Zen monks called komusō. Komusō played honkyoku for enlightenment and alms as early as the 13th century. Honkyoku is part of the practice of suizen (吹禅, `blowing Zen`). The Fuke sect which originated this practice ceased to exist in the 1...