DHARAMSHALA, India (RNS) — When the nonsectarian Dolma Ling Nunnery transitioned to female leadership earlier this year, for the first time in its three-decade history, it marked a radical shift in ...

Each year, ever since the early 1400s, Tibetan Buddhists gather to unveil a large thangka — a painting made on fabric — of Buddha. The great prayer ritual, which was banned during the cultural ...

On the occasion of the exhibition Tsherin Sherpa: Spirits, join the Tibetan Buddhist monks of the Gaden Shartse Monastic College for a special butter sculpture demonstration and workshop. Learn about ...

An important collection of Tibetan Buddhist art in the U.S. has been given to the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Julian Raby, director of the Freer and Sackler galleries, announced the gift ...

The Buddha is said to have delivered some 84,000 teachings. The Tibetan Buddhist canon, all told, is more than 230,000 pages long. A global push to translate it all into English — described as a ...

Ithaca, N.Y. — The Tibetan Buddhists have finished two of four new buildings which comprise the Du Khor Choe Ling Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies. Located on 28-acres of land less than ...

From the earthy mineral pigments ground from azurite to paint a sky, to paper given its luster from yak brains, the creation of Tibetan Buddhist texts is being examined down to its bare materials at ...

In the hectic modern world, sometimes it’s good to slow things down. That happened this week when Tibetan Buddhist monks visited Claremont. * Tibetan Buddhist monks visiting the Benton Museum of Art ...

Chinese bureaucracy excels at record-keeping, and the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s official atheism isn’t preventing the latest effort in meticulous documentation. Earlier this month, the Chinese ...

The Evolution of Dharamshala Himani Sharma Dharamshala is often regarded as the spiritual nucleus for the Tibetan exile ...