The Jokhang Temple was built in the seventh century ... is considered to be the most sacred image of Buddha in Tibet. It is said that the statue was sculpted by Vishwakarma – the Indian god ...

As the Buddha's teaching on compassion and selflessness ... Many aspects of daily life were centered around the temples in Tibet. In those days, nearly every Tibetan family sent one child to ...

The center’s trees are covered in colorful Tibetan prayer flags that flutter ... I used to drive all the way to Long Island to go to the Buddhist temple,” he said of the almost the three- ...

China has deployed nearly 400 troops at Larung Gar Buddhist Academy to enforce stricter surveillance, with plans to impose regulations in 2022 limiting monks' residency to 15 years and requiring ...

The ramifications of the elderly Dalai Lama's impending death are becoming impossible to ignore — and without a plan, this ...

After days of visiting temples, palaces and ... including Buddha statues, prayer beads, prayer wheels and beautiful Thangka, or Tibetan scroll paintings. The presence of all these cultural ...

His parents, Norbu Wangdu and Dolma Tsering, fled Tibet in the 1960s after China’s occupation in the late 1950s. Born in 1982 ...