{
  "name": "Buddhist Music",
  "description": "Encompassing the various musical practices that have developed throughout Buddhist history and across the many regions Buddhism spread to.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/buddhist-music/",
  "parent": "Asian Music",
  "level": "sub-2",
  "children_count": 4,
  "children": [
    {
      "name": "Beompae",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/beompae/",
      "description": "Korean genre of Buddhist chants and songs performed by monks while celebrating religious rituals in temples.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Buddhist Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Chöd",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/chod/",
      "description": "Tibetan Buddhist and Bönpo practice incorporating ritualized liturgical chants and instrumental accompaniment from the chöd damaru, drilbu, and kangling.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Buddhist Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Shōmyō",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/shomyo/",
      "description": "Japanese Buddhist chant that utilizes the yō scale.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Buddhist Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Tibetan Buddhist Chant",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/tibetan-buddhist-chant/",
      "description": "Ritual vocal music of the Tibetan Buddhist faith characterized by its low pitch, droning repetitiousness, and frequent use of overtone singing.",
      "level": "sub-3",
      "parent": "Buddhist Music"
    }
  ]
}