This was probably inspired by the tombs of the ancient Achaemenid kings (500 BC), defying Zoroastrian sky burial and Islamic earth burial practices. The Mughal emperor Aurangzeb was the only exception ...

NEW YORK, April 17, 2017 — Adriana Proser, John H. Foster Senior Curator for Traditional Asian Art at Asia Society Museum in New York, provides an inside look at the Tibetan thangka paintings on ...

The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) has decided to extend a loan of $4 million for the construction a Tibetan town project in Minnesota state of the USA. The budget for the project was passed ...

The platform above the burial site collapsed right from under their feet. The pallbearers were carrying Benjamin Aviles to his final resting spot last Friday. As they began to lay down the casket ...

The platform above the burial site collapsed right from under their feet. The pallbearers were carrying Benjamin Aviles to his final resting spot. As they began to lay down the casket, video shows ...

The origin of the chant was a group of Tibetan monks who sat facing a small platform where they would later create a piece of temporary art known as a mandala. The monks from the Drepung Gomang ...

Centuries of antiquarians and archaeologists thought they were burial places for the elite of Neolithic Irish society. Genetic analysis of human remains within several of the tombs initially ...

Two for the Road is a series in which two artists touring together chat about playing shows, life backstage, and more. The latest installment of the series features Melvins frontman Buzz Osborne ...

The Greater Accra Regional Hospital has announced plans for a mass burial of 70 unclaimed bodies ... edition of the Daily Graphic, the hospital urged family members of the deceased to come forward ...

AN apparently insignificant announcement concerning Indo-Tibetan relations was made to the press on September 16, 1952, by the Indian Ministry of External Relations. It stated that the 16-year-old ...

Pay for your own funeral and burial costs with a final expense policy from one of our top-rated insurers. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who ...

When Mellen Mogaka was invited to attend the burial of her estranged husband in Nyabisimba village, Nyamira County, she had no idea what lay in store for her. All that raced through her mind were ...