Shortly after dawn, more than 200 monks from an order of Tibetan exiles carry carefully bundled scriptures and 108 gold-gilt ...

This journey takes us on an exploration journey around the Himalayas. We discover the cultural heritage of the sacred land of ...

Bhutan is a tiny, remote Himalayan kingdom nestled between China and India. It has no traffic lights. Here's why it may be ...

Statues of the Buddha, Bodhi trees ... Siddhartha lived over 2,500 years ago in a country now called Nepal, which borders India. Siddharta had many questions about life…and legend has it ...

Nepal, Sri Lanka and Malaysia. Apart from the Tripitaka (sacred texts of Buddha) chanting and other events, the two-day programme will also mark unveiling of five statues of Buddha in different forms ...

Though sandstone succumbs easily to the chisel, it erodes quickly in rain. The survival of this Buddha and its grottoes, like ...

At South Korea's thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a fire-retardant blanket. Hours later much of the temple burned down in one of the ...

HIROSHIMA--A large, ancient statue of Buddha, displayed near ground zero soon after the atomic bombing to provide emotional support for survivors, is finally coming home after disappearing for ...

Wind-driven wildfires that were among South Korea's worst ever were ravaging the country's southern regions, killing 18 people, destroying more than 200 structures and forcing 27,000 people to ...

A three-foot statue of the Hindu deity Vishnu had washed ashore. The sculpture was broken in pieces, but experts recognized it as depicting Vishnu in the Janardanaya avatar, one of his 24 divine forms ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Unprecedented wildfires ripping through South Korea’s southern regions have destroyed large parts of an ancient Buddhist temple, ruining two of its three state-design ...

Sue Han Kim with Hieun Shin in Seoul AFP Mar 26, 2025 29 mins ago At least 19 people have been killed in one of South Korea's worst wildfire outbreaks, with multiple raging blazes causing ...