The Sanjiangyuan region, or Three River Source, in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, is viewed as the home of the headstreams of the ...

U.S. funding has helped Tibetan refugees from China establish a thriving community in India. The future of that support is ...

Nalanda contributed to the development and evolution of two major Mahayana Buddhist philosophies — Madhyamaka and Yogacara, Abhay K writes in his book, 'Nalanda: How it Changed the World'. Excerpts: ...

Shortly after dawn, more than 200 monks from an order of Tibetan exiles carry carefully bundled scriptures and 108 gold-gilt ...

The artwork, created by Singaporean artist Lakshmi Mohanbabu in collaboration with tech company NuStar and NTU Singapore, has been deployed 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) beneath the sea. Singapore has ...

A huge thank you to all the volunteers, businesses, community members, and especially the Tibetan Buddhist Monks, who helped ...

What's the link between centuries-old Tibetan Thangka paintings and Banarasi silk? Why is Ladakh so important for Kashmiri ...

The spiritual leader, who escaped from Lhasa on March 17, 1959, has written a new book in which is he is unapologetically ...

For the past two years, reports have laid bare the systematic erasure of Tibetan identity ... as reported by Radio Free Asia. A monk at Yulung Monastery, Kunzang Longyang was forced to attend ...

Beginning with a Buddhist prayer from a group of Tibetan monks to ward off obstacles and negativity for the coming year, Losar is then comprised of various Tibetan cultural performances and a ...

The discovery of 2-metre-long Buddha heads with intact features in Ratnagiri establishes that Buddhism was the predominant religion in the early medieval period ...

The Tibetan parliament-in-exile, based in India, has firmly rejected such conditions. Tibetan Buddhist tradition holds that the soul of a senior monk is reborn in a child after his death. The current ...