Jacobs launched the Prayer Flag Project over the summer in response to the growing social divides in the country. Jacobs said she sought to create a symbol of unity and peace for the community by ...

A look at life in Kagyu Samye Ling Buddhist monastery in Dumfries and ... as a group as well as by themselves in solitude. The prayer flags around the monastery are inscribed with prayers and ...

Mandalas are Buddhist devotional images often deemed a diagram or symbol of an ideal universe. Mandalas come in many forms. Often they are painted on scrolls and taken with travelers over long ...

Like many of the five million Tibetans living under China's flag ... drills of Tibetan Buddhism—circumambulating shrines and temples, always clockwise; passing loops of prayer beads through ...

A stepped six-tiered pyramid dominated the central Ketelhuisplein square at Dutch Design Week this year, wrapped in colourful ...

Finally in 1972, when the country adopted the local name of Sri Lanka, the flag was modified once more, with four stylized leaves of the Bo (Pipul) tree, a Buddhist symbol, added to the four corners ...

The mystery-cloaked Himalayan kingdom seeks Gross National Happiness, loves its king and wards off evil spirits with phallic ...

It goes like this: The ogre lived deep in the forest and would raid neighboring villages to kill cattle — the Maasai ...

Members of the Buddhist community attend a dharma prayer service of the sixth World Buddhist Forum in Fenghua District of Ningbo, east China's Zhejiang Province, Oct. 16, 2024. The sixth World ...

A look at life in Kagyu Samye Ling Buddhist monastery in Dumfries and ... as a group as well as by themselves in solitude. The prayer flags around the monastery are inscribed with prayers and ...

(Photo by Norma Meyer) Ancient traditions and culture are amazingly intact in this serene, deep-rooted Buddhist nation ... (Photo by Norma Meyer) Colorful prayer flags flutter everywhere in ...