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

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The magnitude 6.8 quake reduced to rubble roofs and walls at a monastery and a nunnery about 15 km east of the epicentre in Tingri county, China Tibet Online reported on Sunday (Jan 12).

The magnitude 6.8 quake reduced to rubble roofs and walls at a monastery and a nunnery about 15 kilometres east of the epicentre in Tingri county, China Tibet Online reported on Sunday.

At least two Tibetan monastic centres damaged by quake Unknown number of clergy hurt, monasteries affected Buddhist monasteries key to Tibet's cultural identity Some Tibetan monks in the past ...

Pico Iyer’s latest book is Aflame: Learning from Silence. To get to the Monastery of Christ in the Desert, just past Georgia O’Keefe’s Ghost Ranch in northern New Mexico, you have to bump ...

One of the most amazing accomplishments of Byzantine monasteries is the miraculous preservation of ancient Greek knowledge and literature, treasures of ancient wisdom without which our world would ...

Israel Antiquities Authority The monastery was unearthed during an excavation by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) just north of the modern city of Kiryat Gat. The religious complex forms ...

Here, experts have found a large monastery complex dating back to the V-VI centuries AD in the Byzantine period, HeritageDaily reports. According to scientists, inside the monastery there is a large ...

Described by Serie Architects as "an ambitious complex", the building forms the centrepiece building in Shrimad Rajchandra Ashram – a 100-hectare monastery on top of a hill in Dharampur in India ...

A 1,500-year-old mosaic floor with a Greek biblical inscription, at a Byzantine monastery near Kiryat Gat, Israel. Credit: Israel Antiquities Authority A 1,500-year-old Byzantine monastery, uncovered ...