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 ...

During my first-ever visits to Dharamshala and Ladakh, I was pleasantly struck by the strings of coloured flags adorning almost every place. Upon enquiring from one of the Buddhist monks, I got to ...

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 ...

You can see them pretty much around any corner in Boulder: Bright, primary colored squares of cloth strung together, floating in the wind or gently resting on porch railings. These are Tibetan prayer ...

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 ...