The last generation of monks to have studied where the Dalai Lama’s lineage began. Likened by Buddhists to the Vatican City, Ganden is considered the most influential monastery of Tibetan Buddhism.
Tibetan Buddhist monks visited San Luis Obispo this week to create a colorful sand mandala. Visiting from the Ngari Institute of Buddhist Dialects in India, the monks started building the mandala ...
The new documentary focuses on three subjects: China’s impact on the preservation of Tibetan culture ... about the different deities there and the monks, ‘like the great yogi Milarepa ...
The first Japanese recorded to have set foot in Tibet was a monk, in 1900 ... that Ekai dictated based on his travels, as well as documentary records by esteemed ethnographer Jiro Kawakita ...