Beijing - Soldiers and police on Tuesday surrounded a monastery in southwest China where a Tibetan monk set himself on fire and died. The security forces cut off power, water and food to around 100 ...

Time is running out to see Asia Society Museum's exhibition Golden Visions of Densatil: A Tibetan Buddhist Monastery, which closes this Sunday, May 18. Praised as "an enthralling show" by Holland ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls ...

Abbot of Simonos Petra since 2000, Eliseos has been living in the monastery since 1973. On Mount Athos: “Truly Mount Athos spiritually has no borders. It is a place, a center of Christian ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 years. The all-male autonomous community ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls enclose ...

The monastery welcomes anyone who would like to visit — provided they are male. In a more than 1,000-year-old tradition, women are banned from the entire peninsula, which is deemed the Virgin ...

Armenia has submitted a nomination to include Tatev Monastery and the Vorotan Gorge in the UNESCO World Heritage List. The announcement was made during a scientific-practical conference on integrated ...

More than 160 volunteers were recruited to help share the heritage site with the public A 14th Century monastery turned visitor attraction in Coventry is set to reopen to the public. The Grade I ...

Then he eventually joined a monastery in Thailand. 'I had been in the Army since I was 17 and always struggled with confidence, but back then, drinking masked my social anxiety,' he recounted in ...

Two days after leaving the monastery, I was told I had to vacate my home. It all aligned effortlessly. Today, I live in the Middle East. I meditate daily for an hour. I host breathwork sessions ...

The monks, from the Drepung Loseling Monastery in India, arrived this week from their U.S. home base of Atlanta to create the temporary masterpiece of beauty, an artistic tradition of Tantric ...