View more photos on Flickr. HOUSTON, August 19, 2019 — For the fifth consecutive year, Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery in southern India returned to Asia Society Texas Center to ...

Cairang Ji sits on a bed in the main room of a farmhouse here holding her two grandchildren on her lap as she quietly speaks the verses of an old folk song. Two other grandmothers dutifully repeat the ...

Laurie Anderson reads from the Bardo Thodol, the Tibetan “Book of the Dead,” against a backdrop of flute, piano and percussion on “Lotus Born, No Need to Fear.” The track will appear on Songs From the ...

The soothing resonance of Tibetan singing bowls, combined with soft ambient tones, helps calm the mind, relieve stress, and ...

First come the grownups, wheeling crates of Poland Spring. Then the teenagers and little ones, in their fine silk chupas and Nike Air Force 1s. A loudspeaker here, a banner there. A large portrait of ...

Envelop yourself in the ethereal sounds of Tibetan singing bowls, renowned for their ability to induce deep relaxation and meditative states. As these ancient instruments resonate with harmonic ...

“A cold draft is now blowing/ In this sad world” – The Language of Sadness in the Poetry of Tenzin Gyatso (b.1968) ...

Chinese tourists celebrated this summer when it was announced that Larung Gar would soon be open to visitors again. Many had long dreamed of seeing the remote Tibetan Buddhist settlement, home to ...

Shangri-la is best-known as a fictional place—an idyllic valley first imagined by a British novelist in the 1930s—but look at a map and you’ll find it. Sitting at the foot of the Himalayas in ...