Another "re-education" campaign in Tibet's monasteries - AsiaNews.IT
28 May 2012, 4:33 am
At Beijing's urging, Tibet's government launches another brainwashing campaign against Buddhist monks and nuns in order to stop them from further self-immolation. Such campaigns began in 1996 and are the last Maoist tool of control left. Lhasa (AsiaNews ...

On a wing and a prayer: The extraordinary hanging monasteries that cling to the sides of cliffs - Daily Mail
27 May 2012, 4:52 pm
When you're trying to connect with your god, it helps to find some peace and quiet, if you can. But that was, indeed, no such problem for the architects of these impossibly built monasteries. Constructed at dizzying heights on the sides of mountains, they ...

1,000 Tibetan monks, nuns sign motherland petition - English Eastday
22 May 2012, 10:06 pm
They signed their names on Monday at monasteries of counties in Shannan Prefecture, resolving to comply with law and dharma, choose right from wrong, advocate harmony and pursue peace. The number of participants exceeded 80 percent of the total registered ...

Senior Chinese leader calls for stability, social harmony - Xinhua News Agency
22 May 2012, 10:46 am
Jia, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, visited enterprises, urban communities, villages, border areas and monasteries in Yunnan from May 19 to 22, discussing political and ...

Georgian pilgrims regain access to section of monastery lying in Azerbaijan - Sun Sentinel
21 May 2012, 2:00 pm
GARDABANI, Georgia (AP) — Pilgrims to one of former Soviet Georgia's most renowned monasteries, part of which lies in Azerbaijan, are again able to visit the entire complex after an agreement between two countries. Early this month, Azerbaijan began ...

Potala Travel Offers Ganden-Samye Monastery Trekking - Seattle Post Intelligencer
19 May 2012, 9:38 am
Potala Travel, a Tibetan-run tour organization, announces a 12-day trek between two of Tibet’s most important monasteries. Crossing over two 5000-meter mountain passes, this demanding trek is also the most popular route in Central Tibet. Lhasa ...

China to ‘resist sabotage from Dalai clique’ with legal education in monasteries - Phayul
17 May 2012, 11:45 pm
DHARAMSHALA, May 17: In the name of “maintaining stability, enhancing unity, and promoting harmony,” Chinese authorities in Tibet have re-launched a new wave of 'patriotic re-education' and 'legal education' campaigns targeted at Tibetan monastic ...

An unknown India: Mountains, monasteries and majestic views in little-known Sikkim - Daily Mail
16 May 2012, 3:43 am
After Calcutta or Delhi, or any other whirlwind Indian city, Sikkim is like a peaceful, lulling hammock waiting to cradle weary travellers. The air is cleaner, the people more retiring, and the rice terraces, with fluttery prayer flags and rhododendron ...

Buddhist abbey a dream fulfilled for U.S. nuns - USA Today
7 May 2012, 5:37 pm
There isn't exactly an abundance of monasteries here either, let alone Buddhist clergy. Yet just outside of this town of about 21,000 people, Sravasti Abbey sits as one of the only monastic communities in the West for Americans wishing to study ...

Inter-Cultural Dialogue Through monasteries In Kosovo – OpEd - eurasiareview.com
28 April 2012, 3:03 pm
The Orthodox monasteries and the municipalities of Peć and Dečani have to start creating the basis for healthy community relations in order to ensure that the former become centres of inter-cultural dialogue, rather than a focus for conflict. In early ...