Tibetan wood paintings are used in monasteries, homes, and shrines as objects of devotion and protection. Common motifs include auspicious symbols like the endless knot, wheel of dharma, and images of ...

High in the Himalayan region, Tibetan monasteries relied on dogs that carried out work essential to daily life. These dogs supported monks who lived in isolated places surrounded by predators, harsh ...

BOYNE CITY, MI-- Tucked on a rolling hillside south of Boyne City sits a green pasture that is teeming with life and a break from reality. The peaceful Kiwidinok Farm is home to around 60 four-legged ...

Being a monk with a mandala might seem challenging to a non-monk. After days of painstaking work, placing colored grains in an intricate geometric pattern on a large mat, the sand painting is ...

In this form of Cham or Tibetan sacred dance two Dharmapalas (Protectors of Truth) appear on stage gyrating with slow, modulated movements at the 2002 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. The dancers are ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — In Nepal, the unseen eye has changed Tibetan life. The cameras are not just machines perched on the thick bundles of wires that twist through narrow lanes of Kathmandu in Nepal ...