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NEW DELHI, India -- The following information was released by the Government of India: Pay Respects to Babasaheb Ambedkar Posted On: 18 NOV 2024 6:14PM by PIB Delhi The Dragon […]

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, June 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 3, 2024, one hundred days after the passing of Samdech Preah Agga Maha Sangharajadhipati Tep Vong, the Great Supreme Patriarch [...]

WASHINGTON, DC -- The following information was released by Radio Free Asia: Authorities lay out instructions in a training manual for Tibetan Buddhist monks. By Pelbar for RFA Tibetan 2024.04.09 [...]

Buddhist monks receive offerings from the public yesterday during an almsgiving ceremony to mark Makha Bucha Day in Bangkok, Thailand. It is considered one of the most important Buddhist holidays [...]

Oct. 9Cheers: To wisdom and compassion. A pair of Tibetan Buddhist monks spent more than 30 hours this week creating a sand mandala in the Clark College library. A mandala [...]

Byline: Griffin Reilly Oct. 6Like any great artwork, the Tibetan Buddhist sand mandala is crafted with patience, precision and care. What makes the mandala unique, however, is how quickly it's [...]

Byline: Verity Bowman Children had their heads shaved and donned robes at the home of South Korean Buddhism on Tuesday. The makeovers were part of the 'Children becoming Buddhist monks' [...]

WASHINGTON, DC -- The following information was released by Radio Free Asia: Authorities in Tibetan areas of China have further tightened restrictions on public gatherings at Buddhist monasteries during the [...]

Byline: Ben Rueter Oct. 04--Today is the last day to see Tibetan monks construct an intricate sand painting before the art is whisked away. Seven monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery [...]

Aug. 20--Unity of Bloomington, in partnership with the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center and Kumbum Chamtse-Ling Monastery, will present a variety of programs Friday through Aug. 28. The five days [...]

As the widow of the diver who died during the operation to save them watched, 11 Thai soccer players and their coach were ordained Wednesday as Buddhist monks. The ceremony [...]

Byline: Laura Hartley Warwick's annual Thai festival is back - and this year the racecourse is taking guests on a journey to Bangkok. For two days on June 2 and [...]

Not counting dachshunds, cameramen and the dearly departed, about 70 souls gathered at Susan Numeroff's house in Manhattan on June 23 for the Jewish wedding of Koshin Paley Ellison and [...]

Byline: Mike Spence July 08--Music, art and spiritualism from the Far East will be on display when 'The Mystical Arts of Tibet' is presented at the Robert Hoag Rawlings Public [...]

Byline: Haisten Willis Imagine spending more than 30 hours painstakingly detailing an elaborate piece of art, finally perfecting the work, then destroying it mere hours later. That is what a [...]

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- The following information was released by Wake Forest University: by Kim McGrath | mcgratka@wfu.edu | 336.758.3209 and Moe Rama ('19) - Intern | media@wfu.edu | 336.758.5237 Tibetan [...]

NOTRE DAME, Ind. -- The following information was released by the University of Notre Dame: by Jessica Sieff Six Tibetan Buddhist monks of the Labrang Tashi Kyil Monastery in Dehradun, [...]

Byline: Ben Westcott and Angus Watson, CNN (CNN) -- The young Thai soccer team whose dramatic evacuation from a cave captured the world's attention will become monks in a ceremony [...]

WASHINGTON, DC -- The following information was released by Radio Free Asia: A Tibetan monk jailed two years ago for celebrating the birthday of exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama [...]

Byline: Savannah Neubert The mandala sand painting was finally completed by the Tibetan monks of Drepung Loseling Monastery on Thursday, March 9, at noon when the Mandala Closing Ceremony began [...]

Byline: Savannah Neubert The mandala sand painting was finally completed by the Tibetan monks of Drepung Loseling Monastery on Thursday, March 9, at noon when the Mandala Closing Ceremony began [...]

Byline: Grace Wyler Central to the monks visit to Dartmouth was the creation of sand mandalas that took place over the course of the weekend in the Collis Center. The [...]

DHARAMSALA, India -- The following information was released by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD): A notice issued by a provincial unit of the Buddhist Association of [...]

MUNDGOD, Karnataka, India -- The following information was released by the office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama: On the occasion of his 81st birthday His Holiness the Dalai Lama [...]

KATMANDU, Nepal -- Nepal's government announced on Tuesday that it would allow the funeral and cremation of a revered Tibetan Buddhist monk to take place in the country, reversing an [...]

KATMANDU, Nepal -- Under scrutiny from China, Nepal's government announced on Sunday that it had retracted its permission to allow the cremation of a prominent spiritual figure in Tibetan Buddhism [...]

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) September 02, 2015 Tibetan Buddhist Monks will Construct a Mandala Sand Painting at Pico Union Project Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will construct a [...]

Byline: HOUSTON, TX, Aug 13, 2015 (Marketwired via COMTEX) -- In a scene reminiscent of season three in 'House of Cards,' Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will construct [...]

WASHINGTON, DC -- The following information was released by Radio Free Asia: Authorities in western China's Sichuan province have freed a Tibetan monk detained for two months for planning celebrations [...]

Byline: EMMA ROSENTHAL Dr. Hun Lye, Lama Somar and Khenpo Choepheo are three lamas who are creating a sand mandala in the Villard Room throughout the week. Once they finish [...]

WASHINGTON, DC -- The following information was released by Radio Free Asia: Authorities in northwestern China's Qinghai province have ordered supporters of a freed Tibetan political prisoner not to publicly [...]

Byline: Prasanta Mazumdar Prime minister Manmohan Singh will visit Arunachal Pradesh on Friday to pay his last respects to chief minister Dorjee Khandu, even as the Congress decided that power [...]

PHNOM PENH, Oct 27, 2014 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Hundreds of Cambodian Buddhist monks chanted in religious language in front of the Royal Palace here Tuesday to bless the nation's [...]

Byline: Katherine Kelliher Ryan Quinn/ Photo Editor The monks, dressed in traditional garb, worked on the mandala for several hours each day, only stopping for a lunch break. Students were [...]

Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency) ['Buddhist Assembly Held To Remember Nanjing Massacre Victims'] NANJING, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) - Buddhist monks [...]

Text of report in English by state-run Vietnamese news agency VNA website [Unattributed article from the 'General' page: 'Monument Dedicated to Self-burnt Monk Inaugurated'] HCM City (VNA) -A monument dedicated [...]

After a trip to India in February, Cambodian Buddhist monk Sang Moeng returned to Watt Munisotaram, his home temple near Hampton, Minn., practically bubbling over with excitement. The Maha Bodhi [...]

THOUGH the moon was just a crescent and the monsoons were far away, Burmese Buddhists from around New York came last Sunday to the Universal Peace Buddha Temple complex, a […]

Byline: Katrina Borges Tibetan monk Lobzang Chetan gave religious studies associate professor a blessing during the monksâ presentation on campus this past Thursday. Katrina BorgesFollow @CPMustangNews Itâs not very often [...]

Tibetan Buddhist monks ended their week-long residency at the Jepson Center with a closing ceremony on Sept. 29, which included the destruction of the sand mandala. The event was held [...]

Byline: Omar Bahalwan, Students and faculty members tend to have very busy schedules, and with busy schedules it is easy to neglect the need for exercise, because some exercises take [...]

-I faced a moral dilemma when, at just gone 5am, Ya, my guide to Luang Prabang, asked whether I wanted my photograph taken as I handed out rice to the [...]