It’s situated near the north Indian town of Baijnath in Himachal Pradesh, and belongs to the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. Some of its monks come from exiled Tibetan families ...

Thangkas often focus on a specific deity and scene, and their form and surrounding ... The Tucci Expeditions and Buddhist Painting exhibition, Tibetan thangkas were originally created for the purpose ...

He is referring to the temperamental deity above his village. One of the holiest mountains in Tibetan Buddhism, Kawagebo has never been conquered, and locals believe its summit—and its glacier ...

The deities who reside in the palace embody ... in response to a request from the Dalai Lama, 20 Tibetan Buddhist monks came to the Smithsonian's Freer & Sackler galleries, the national museums ...

It’s situated near the north Indian town of Baijnath in Himachal Pradesh, and belongs to the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. Some of its monks come from exiled Tibetan families ...

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The TV star has interviewed a number of big names for the BBC One programme over the last 15 years but one stands out for all of the wrong reasons ...