Tag: buddhist

Himalayan Buddhist monastery prepares for long, isolated winter

Some 5,500 metres (18,000 feet) above sea level in the Indian Himalayas sits the Tnagyud Gompa Buddhist monastery, where snow can leave the monks...

Sri Lanka arrest 19 after Buddhist-Muslim clash

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan police arrested 19 people after a clash between ‘extremists’ from the majority Buddhist and minority Muslim communities in which four people were...