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Millennium Post
April 12, 2018
Butter lamps are used in nearly every Tibetan temple, household and altar. The contrasting tones in luminosity ... Chants in Tibetan and Tankri text, seen inscribed on bells, prayer wheels and rock walls, make their way into her paintings, lending them a totemic quality. The circle, depicting the mandala orÃâà...
Tricycle
April 4, 2018
A painting of Shakyamuni Buddha featured in the Unknown Tibet exhibit at the Asia Society in New York City. .... make a knockout exhibition by themselves, and in a way, they do: they are separated from the rest of the show as they would have been separated from less esoteric images in a Tibetan temple.
The Epoch Times
March 25, 2018
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama (C), flanked by President of the Central Tibetan Administration Lobsang Sangay (R) and Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile Penpa Tsering (L), greets the audience during the 52nd anniversary of Tibetan Democracy Day at the Tsuglakhang Temple in McLeodÃâà...
Global Times
March 22, 2018
Temples in Tibet tested monks on their knowledge of Chinese laws to make Buddhists more aware of the laws. ... "Theft, for example, not only violates the law, but also breaks the Shramanera Precepts and the temple's regulation," said Ngawang, a Buddhist in Sera Monastery, chinanews.com reported.
TTG Asia
March 21, 2018
... Tibet Da'ji Hotel to launch Tin Hotels in Tibet's cultural and religious centre of Lhasa. Scheduled to open in 2020, Tin Lhasa will serve as the anchor to a nearly 29,000m2 six-store, mixed-use development located close to the main tourist attractions of Jokhang Temple, Barkhor Square and Potala Palace.
BloombergQuint
March 21, 2018
The Central Tibetan Administration had planned a massive 'Thank You India' event in Delhi to mark 60 years of the Dalai Lama's exile from Tibet and to ... Samdhong Rinpoche, then prime minister of the Tibetan Government in exile, speaks to the media at the Namgyal Temple in Dharamsala, India,Ãâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 16, 2018
... palace of the Dalai Lama since the 7th century, in Tibet. (Chinatour.com). Experience high-altitude adventure on a well-priced Tibet excursion with Everest Camp operated by Chinatour.com. The 10-day tour begins in Lhasa and includes visits to the Potala Palace, Jokhan Temple and the Sera Monastery.
BBC News
March 7, 2018
I'd first gone to see the Dalai Lama in his Indian home in Dharamsala as a teenager – thanks to my philosopher father, who'd met the Tibetan leader ... were circumambulating the temple, spinning prayer-wheels as they walked, while workers sang folk songs as they laboured to restore crumbling buildings.
Philippine Tatler
March 1, 2018
Likewise, the most important temple in Tibetan Buddhism, Jokhang Temple, will also open its doors free of charge. Built in 652 by King Songtsen Gampo for his two princess brides, the temple expanded over the next 900 years taking on Chinese, Tibetan and Nepalese designs. Other attractions in LhasaÃâà...
HuffPost India
February 27, 2018
JOHANNES EISELE via Getty Images The Jokhang temple in Lhasa is one of Tibetan Buddhism's most hallowed sites. The Jokhang temple, one of Tibet's most sacred sites, reportedly caught on fire on Saturday in the city of Lhasa. Dramatic videos shared on social media show the seventh-century temple,Ãâà...
Los Angeles Times
February 22, 2018
On Saturday evening, Tibetan social media users posted photos and videos of the ancient Jokhang Temple complex in the region's capital Lhasa, a UNESCO world heritage site, with one of its golden roofs engulfed in flames. Hours later, Chinese state media said that the fire had been extinguished andÃâà...
South China Morning Post
February 21, 2018
A preliminary investigation into the cause of last weekend's fire at Jokhang Temple in Tibet has ruled out arson, according to a state media report ... the fire, photographs and videos of the Unesco Heritage Site that many regard as the heart of Tibetan Buddhism engulfed in flames triggered an outpouring ofÃâà...
Xinhua
December 31, 1999
LHASA, April 8 (Xinhua) -- About 3 million people in the southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, about 90 percent of its population, received ... medical workers have been sent to villages, communities, and temples to offer free medical checkups for local residents and set up health records for them.
Daily News & Analysis
December 31, 1999
In a show of solidarity, a team of 22 Danish volunteers in collaboration with a Tibetan Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO)-in-exile are renovating a prominent Tibetan monument known as 'Tibetan Martyrs Pillar' near the main Buddhist temple in Himachal Pradesh's Dharamsala . Director of Tibet HopeÃâà...
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