Monks have been seeking spiritual enlightenment at these sites on steep cliffs, inside caves and atop an extinct volcano for ...

Preserve the monastery, so that no defilement would ever touch it, so that what happened during the twentieth century—and not only the twentieth century (there were many trials other times, too)—would ...

Ruins of the Lhakhang of Rongbuk Rongbuk Monastery was founded in 1902 in an area of meditation huts that had been in use by nuns and hermits for over 400 years. Hermitage meditation caves dot the ...

Hundreds of Ladakhis and tourists from all over the world crowd into the courtyard of the small Takthok cave monastery for a two-day celebration in honour of Padmasambhava. Also known as Guru ...

The village has been the location for many Buddhist monasteries. Remnants of a cave monastery and two walls dedicated to Rinchen Zangpo found in Lingshed. According to folk tales, there were more ...

The ASI has done a good job in restoring them. The facade is made of teak wood and there is a Ashoka pillar in the front. The ...

All the rooms in the monastery were either carved out of the mountain or existing caves made into rooms. All the walls and the roof are made of rocks. Hence, the locals call the monastery Takthok ...