A “no photograph upon landing” announcement punctured the serene silence of the cabin as I gazed at the snow-capped peaks outside our airplane window, a stark reminder that we were entering a land of ...

If not for the picture-perfect backdrop of golden roofs of Buddhist temples ... a senior monk at Jokhang Temple, the holiest in Tibetan Buddhism. Their response – in line with Xi’s increasing ...

Emperor Qianlong granted two golden urns in 1792, placing one at the Lama Temple in Beijing and the ... Buddhas play a vital role in promoting Tibetan Buddhism and that their reincarnation has ...

Lydia Swinscoe recalls all the highs and lows of her solo travels through South Asia — and reveals what it taught her about ...

For centuries, the people of Banepa have celebrated the Chandeshwari Jatra, a festival that blends devotion, history and ...

Amritsar with its out-of-this-world Golden Temple, and a handful of cool Himalayan hill stations where we caught a reading with the Dalai Lama. Every day was an adventure, made all the more ...

Two Chinese geoparks have been officially designated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ...

Among the curious objects placed before the images of the gods in the principal temple, I saw some bowls filled ... The official catalogue for Golden Visions of Densatil: A Tibetan Buddhist Monastery ...

Nepal, a stunning mountain nation, is famously known as a trekker's paradise. Nestled in the embrace of the Himalayas, it ...

and revolves constantly in the prayer wheels in every temple, nearly every house. There is gold in Tibet that cannot be mined for fear of offending the gods of earth, though panning gold from the ...