In the small city of Xiahe you'll find Labrang Monastery, one of Tibet's largest Buddhist institutions, with some 4,000 monks. You should wake early enough to walk around the monastery with the ...

A fire has hit the most important shrine in Tibetan Buddhism - the Jokhang Monastery in Lhasa. Footage posted online showed flames billowing from the roof and what appeared to be at least one ...

Like the Potala Palace, the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery holds a lot of significance in Tibetan Buddhism. Not only was the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery founded by the first Dalai Lama, but later it became the ...

The Buddhist monastery of Tabo is located in the barren Himalayan mountain desert valley of Spiti, formerly part of Western Tibet, now, Northern India. Founded in the year 996, it is the oldest ...

On the north side of the Himalaya sits the partially reconstructed Tibetan Buddhist monastery of Rongbuk ... to have wrought a dramatic prodigy—a hall of grandeur that led to the mountain." ...

Dedicated to the Drugpa order of Tibetan Buddhism ... monks reside in the monastery. The monastery complex comprises number of shrines, Dukhang (assembly hall) and the Lhakhang (Lama temple).

Dedicated to the Drugpa order of Tibetan Buddhism ... monks reside in the monastery. The monastery complex comprises number of shrines, Dukhang (assembly hall) and the Lhakhang (Lama temple).

BEIJING (Reuters) - Buddhist temples and monasteries in Tibet must become propaganda centers for the ruling Communist Party, where monks and nuns learn to "revere" science and appreciate the party ...

background and objectives of the celebration, said, “Palden Lhamo is the dharma protector, and on the 15th day of the 10th ...