with a colossal temple of a cross-shaped floor plan in the centre of the courtyard and 177 monastic cells along the enclosure walls on the four sides. This layout, and the decorations of carved stones ...

Toronto has seen all types of new buildings join the urban fabric in a dizzying decade and a half of booming construction, but one new proposal ...

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 ...

A look at life in Kagyu Samye Ling Buddhist monastery in Dumfries and Galloway. Prayer and meditation are important parts of each day. When Buddhists pray they pray to the Buddha or other ...

In a monastery in central Myanmar, a Buddhist monk, Wathawa, rallies his militia with a cry: “What’s our spirit like?” “The spirit of iron!” shout a group of rifle-bearing men ...

Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], January 12 (ANI): The Buddhist scholars and monastic leaders from across the Himalayan region on Sunday gathered in the North Indian hill town, Shimla to host a ...

Like the Potala Palace, the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery holds a lot of significance in Tibetan Buddhism ... and the beautiful art and architecture that permeated the grounds. And if you want to ...