Tashi Gurung says the restoration work has provided him with a stable income and allowed him to stay in Lo Manthang (Credit: Tulsi Rauniyar) Extreme weather is threatening these intricate 15th ...

In years past, the second son in a family was expected to join a monastery and serve as a monk, but today many leave Mustang. It’s no coincidence that Nepal’s roadbuilding boom is occurring ...

AFCP projects in Nepal include the restoration of ancient Buddhist chhortens in Upper Mustang, the 11th century Rinchenling Monastery in Humla, and the historic Gaddi Baithak palace in downtown ...

More distressingly, over the past three decades, two of Thubchen monastery's soaring ... this work elsewhere in Mustang and across the southern slopes of the Nepal Himalaya, the native ...

A new road will bring trade, and tourists, to the remote village of Ghami – a place that currently has the feel of a lost city.

Deep in the heart of a medieval monastery in Nepal’s remote Upper Mustang region, the battle to restore sacred murals and preserve traditional Tibetan Buddhist culture is in full swing.

That is fueling culture erosion,” says Chime Rinzin, a head monk at a monastery ... isolated valley of Mustang. These projects are part of an ambitious new goal in Nepal to construct paved ...

Upper Mustang in Nepal’s trans-Himalaya is a major tourist attraction with arid and desolate mountain landscapes, ancient Tibetan culture with monasteries and chortens and places of historical ...

Set 3510 metres above sea level, Ghami in Upper Mustang, an isolated kingdom in Nepal’s barren highlands ... meditation caves for monks and monasteries, some since Neolithic times.