There are days when you don’t feel like chanting mantras or lighting diyas. You don’t want advice or even hope. You just want ...

Again Urgelling Monastery is another important site just a few kilometers away from Tawang Town. In fact, people believe this monastery as the birthplace of the sixth Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso ...

A mass prayer meet was held at Tawang Monastery on Sunday to remember Nyima Wangdi, a monk from the monastery and Tsering Tempa from Jangda village, who lost their lives on May 2 police firing ...

The 336-year-old monastery is the largest in India and second largest in the world after Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet. Perched on a cliff at 10,000 feet, Tawang monastery is known in Tibetan as ...

Sitting in the courtyard of the Khinmey monastery near his house, Mr Chewang speaks of the hardships people had to face during the 1962 war. "We didn't even have proper roads.

Prior to the construction of the monastery, Tawang was traditionally inhabited by the Monpa people. The spread of Buddhism in the area started with the arrival of Guru Padmasambhava, the Indian ...

The Tawang Monastery in Arunachal ... and to this day the people of the valley’s Indigenous Monpa tribe take ... The drone of monks in prayer and the rotation of prayer wheels echo across its ...

"Everything from the main prayer hall to the throne from where the Dalai Lama would lead a three-day prayer session for some 30,000 followers is ready," Guru Tuku, the abbot of Tawang monastery ...

TAWANG (ARUNACHAL PRADESH): The Dalai Lama, who arrived in this strategic Indian border state on a much-watched visit Sunday to a rousing welcome by hundreds of ...

The 170-page colourful book pays homage to the beauty of Tawang and is a gift to the unforgettable hospitality and love of its people. “We have issued an appeal asking for help and advice. If they ...

The road up to Tawang, a Buddhist monastery-town near the border with China, takes two long days of travel. From the start you traverse a narrow and muddy track, often single-lane and scattered ...