Foster Senior Curator for Traditional Asian Art at Asia Society Museum in New York, provides an inside look at the Tibetan thangka paintings on display in the exhibition she co-curated, Unknown Tibet: ...

Buddha is Buddha, I used to think ... Even today, some Bhutanese artists still paint in the traditional style, making thangka paintings or murals in temples. These artists do something really ...

Now, Thangka paintings typically have set themes and subjects, and vocabularies to depict those subjects. Practitioners spend years perfecting and painting Buddhist scenes, deities, and mandalas.

The monastery holds sacred Buddhist relics and ancient thangkas. Tourists can also participate in spiritual retreats with ...

McLeod Ganj is spoken about a lot. But if you love less hustle head to Dharamkot, McLeod Ganj’s calmer cousin.

From offering high-altitude thrills and hearty local eats to gorgeous Himalayan views, Gangtok is where serenity meets street ...

Shortly after dawn, more than 200 monks from an order of Tibetan exiles carry carefully bundled scriptures and 108 gold-gilt Buddha statues in a long procession toward the site revered as Siddhartha ...

Kopan Monastery Kopan Monastery, a Tibetan Buddhist retreat perched atop a hill ... with specialized sessions on Tibetan medicine and Thangka painting. # Amitabha Monastery Located on Druk ...

160 x 70 cm. (63 x 27.6 in.) ...

Tucked away in the northeastern part of Himachal Pradesh, Spiti Valley is a high-altitude cold desert nestled deep within the ...