(RNS) — Every year, between the sixth and seventh months of the lunar calendar, nomad tribes gather in the tiny Tibetan village of Ser Geyrgo for a prayer festival that is meant to invoke heaven. (RNS ...

An exiled Tibetan holds prayer flags called “lungta,” or wind horse, to be tied on tall posts on the third day of the Tibetan New Year, in Dharmsala, India. Tibetans believe the Buddhist prayers ...

Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], Dec 26 (ANI): Tibetan Buddhists in Shimla on Wednesday organised prayers for world peace, to dispel the evils of the previous year, and bring good luck for the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Exiled Tibetan Buddhist monks ushered in the first day of the Tibetan New Year or Losar by holding ritual prayers on the terrace ...

After fleeing his native Tibet, Lama Tsondru Sangpo (pictured) is “planting the Buddha seed” in New Haven with a display of sacred paintings. New Haveners gathered at the New Haven Lawn Club on Friday ...

Tibetan Buddhist monks living in exile offered special prayers at the Dorjidak Monastery near Shimla at Panthaghati on Sunday morning to mark the 90th birthday of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. The ...

''Om mani padme hum.'' I first heard, or rather read this Tibetan Buddhist prayer, ''Hail Jewel of the Lotus Flower'' when, as a 12-year-old I avidly consumed a book called ''With Mystics and ...

BEIJING – Defiant Buddhist monks banned from marking a key Tibetan New Year prayer festival marched in protest in China's southwest, rights groups and officials said. It was the latest resistance to ...

Ethnic Tibetan monks walk in a procession to display a giant 'thangka', a sacred painting on cloth, on a hill Credit: REUTERS Ethnic Tibetan monks and pilgrims display the sacred painting Credit: ...