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What if you were offered the chance to see the snow-capped mountains of the Himalayas , the cold desert of the Nubra Valley, cross some of the highest mountain passes in the world, visit quaint monasteries in remote valleys and get a crash course on Tibetan Buddhism from the lamas, ride in tandem with the sparkling waters of the Indus, plus a ... (more)

Dakini, an enlightened Tibetan Buddhism goddess and SFMOMA 's Felix Gonzalez-Torres' "Untitled" .

His Holiness the 17th Karmapa Thaye Dorje, spiritual head of the Karma Kagyu school, one of the oldest Buddhist traditions in Tibet, will preside over the ceremonies.

Li Yang converts to Buddhism recently in the Shaoling Temple in Dengfeng of Central China's Henan province on July 26, 2014.

Nepal will allow a monk prominent in Tibetan Buddhism to be cremated in a monastery in Kathmandu, a minister said on Tuesday, disregarding fears of possible anti-China protests by his followers during the funeral.

The teachings of Zen include various sources of MahA yA na thought, especially YogA cA ra, the TathA gatagarbha Sutras and Huayan.

South Korea is stepping up efforts to inscribe the nation's traditional Buddhist mountain temples as UNESCO World Cultural Heritage sites with the founding of a new association to facilitate and oversee the inscription process until 2018.

The Yen Tu historical relic occupies nearly 20 kilometers of Quang Ninh Province's Uong Bi District.

The paramitas , or perfections, in Buddhism are a set of virtues that aspirants cultivate as part of their path.

Some of the earliest traces of human culture can be found in the Southeast Asian nation of Thailand.

Diskit Monastery also known as Deskit Gompa or Diskit Gompa is the oldest and largest Buddhist monastery in the Nubra Valley of Ladakh, northern India.

Workers take a break sitting on the tracks leading to the platform of the newly opened Lhasa train station in Lhasa, Tibet, China.

The logic of morality is often based on a wish, an assumption, or an aspiration toward self-mastery in service of a spiritual or worldly goal.

China will invest 495 million yuan to provide safe drinking water to all temples around the southwestern Tibet Autonomous Region within this year.

Conch shells sounding from the roof announce the early morning puja at the Tibetan Buddhist Thiksay Monastery in Ladakh.

Yellow Peril was a color metaphor for race that originated in the late 19th century with Chinese immigrants as laborers to various Western countries, especially North America.

The reservations against the cremation of Tibetan religious guru Shamar Rinpoche, the lineage holder of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, on Nepali soil are understandable.

Nun Ven Miao Ze shows how to copy Sutra calligraphy, characters from Hridaya Sutra, depicting the word po ruey, meaning prajnya or wisdom It is a temple for foodies, in the truest sense.

The 27th General Conference of the World Fellowship of Buddhists, jointly held by the Buddhist Association of China, Shaanxi Province, and the Organizing Committee of Baoji City, is scheduled to be held in Baoji City, Shaanxi Province, from October 16 to 18 this year.

Situated in downtown Xi'an, Guangren Temple was a temporary dwelling for senior lamas from northwestern China and Kangzang Plateau on their way to the capital, and was therefore referred to as the "Lama Temple" in ancient times.