HONOLULU ” Assistant curator John Johnston scaled steep cliffs for seven hours to reach a bronze sculpture of a Buddha at a small Himalayan monastery 13,000 feet above sea level. And where there was ...

So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas — By Barbara Crossette, Knopf, $25, 275 pp. In a world where cultural traditions are threatened everywhere by the electronic ...

The Global Peace Prayer Festival in Thimphu is bringing together an unparalleled assembly of eminent lamas from all schools ...

Pittsburgh Penguins alternate captain Evgeni Malkin’s wife Anna Kasterova recently took a trip to Bhutan. There she visited the Buddha Dordenma, a giant statue of Buddha located in Thimphu, the ...

The valley was unspeakably beautiful: honey-colored hills flanked by mountains covered in pine trees. Dark shrubs dotted the expanse, as did wandering cows, temples and clusters of 108 white Buddhist ...

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Bhutan, where progress is measured by Gross National Happiness ... The festival's symbol features two Bodhi leaves—the sacred symbol of Buddha's enlightenment under the tree where Siddhartha became ...

Monks and nuns of the Central Monastic Body will have a chatbot designed to answer questions, in English. The technology was created together with Japanese partners. An initial period of six months of ...

A group of children stands waiting under the 177-foot tall Great Buddha Dordenma statue in Bhutan, a tiny country in the Himalayas between Tibet and India. They're not there to worship; they're not ...

Summit County, CO ColoradoBRECKENRIDGE – Ven. Lopen Kinley, a Tantric Buddhist monk from the South Asian country of Bhutan, wants to be the bridge between his country and Colorado.He and three of his ...