The Takthok monastery, some 50 kilometres south-east of Leh, the capital of India's northern Ladakh region, belongs to the oldest school of Tibetan Buddhism with direct links to Indian scholar ...

A traditional khata scarf draped around their shoulders, the researchers quietly installed a weather monitoring station just ...

5. Rumtek Monastery, Sikkim Originally built in Tibet in the 9th century and later re-established in Sikkim during the 1960s, Rumtek Monastery is one of India’s grandest Buddhist monasteries.

LADAKH, India (AP) — One by one, 13 Buddhist monks wearing brightly colored silk costumes and wide-brimmed black hats, stepped onto the rectangular courtyard of the Hemis monastery. They began ...