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 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 ...

In his new book, “The Free Mind: Finding Clarity in a Digitally Distracted World,” Rinpoche offers generational Kilung ...

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 Drepung Gomang Monastery of South India plans for eight Tibetan Buddhist monks to share and demonstrate aspects of their endangered culture at the Capitol and the Bob Kirby Branch in a ...

Asia Society presents the first exhibition to explore the history, iconography, and extraordinary artistic production associated with the central Tibetan Buddhist monastery called Densatil that was ...

However, at age 12, he was sent to join his brother Akong Rinpoche who was already running a Buddhist monastery. "In Tibet it was expected I would join him when I learn all the knowledge and I ...

The youthful Buddhist lama sat on a throne ... U.S. to perfect his English before sending him to a monastery. Dorje is fluent in English and Tibetan. He grew up reading the manga graphic novel ...

One of the best places to immerse yourself in Tibetan Buddhism is the Sera Monastery. Situated about 5 miles north of central Lhasa, this monastery is one of the most important in Lhasa.