If you are a mountain person and the Himalayas fascinate you, there's no way you haven't been intrigued by the Buddhist prayer flags. Dar-ding flags are either square or rectangular and are connected ...

As images of the devastation in Nepal become more prevalent in the wake of the 7.8-magnitude earthquake, one brightly-coloured symbol flies in stark contrast to the rubble: Tibetan Buddhist prayer ...

On May 16, the most important Buddhist festival took place in Nepal, celebrating Buddha Jayanti, the Buddha's birthday, his enlightenment and nirvana. Nine percent of Nepalese are Buddhists. The ...

The process of making prayer flags is similar to that of making Tibetan scripture and wooden Buddhist carvings. First, painters and calligraphers are invited to paint the images and write the ...

You might say that Kathryn J. Price, whose exhibition of recent weavings is at Moravian College’s Haupert Union Building in Bethlehem, was born into the tradition of crafts. “My mother always had an ...

Amid the towering Himalayas and cascades of fluttering prayer flags, Bhutan turned into a radiant sanctuary of devotion as thousands gathered for the Global Peace Prayer Festival, one of the most ...

The Bhutanese government has warned its citizens not to cut down thousands of young trees every year to make poles for hoisting Buddhist prayer flags. It said that the felling of trees is a threat to ...