Tucked away in a quiet valley about 40 kilometers from Leh, Hemis is the largest and wealthiest monastery in Ladakh. Known for the vibrant Hemis Festival, which features masked dances and cultural ...
Torgya Festival, Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh Three days before Losar, the Tibetan New Year, the monks of Tawang Monastery ...
Six of the 24 Orthodox Christian monasteries strewn across Meteora, a collection of massive stone pillars and rounded boulders in northwestern Greece, are still active more than 700 years after the ...