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 ...

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(The Conversation) — A 2012 change has seen scores of Tibetan Buddhist nuns achieve the highest degree in Tibetan Buddhist philosophy. The implications go beyond just higher learning. (The ...

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 ...

Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Gaden Shartse Monastery visited Carlsbad, California to construct a sacred sand mandala, a ...

The Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler galleries will offer a series of free public events on the opening weekend of “In the Realm of the Buddha,” a celebration of the sacred arts of Tibetan Buddhism, on ...

Athangka painting by legendary Tibetan painter Namkhagyan is among exhibits at the ongoing Beijing show.[Photo provided to China Daily] Legend has it that about centuries ago, Namkhagyan, a master of ...

Buddhist teachings do not rule out the use of force to relieve a greater suffering, although the Buddhist tradition is rightly known for the systematic practice of nonviolence, its first ethical ...

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 ...

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 ...