79°56′20″E / 30.50222°N 79.93889°E / 30.50222; 79.93889 Uttarakhand 48 Chorten Nyima Ri 6,927 22,726 Sikkim Himalaya 807 27°57′00″N 88°10′42″E / 27.95000°N...

great religious centers close to her Sikkim retreat: the monastery of Chorten Nyima and Tashilhunpo Monastery, close to Shigatse, one of the biggest cities...

vision: At nineteen thousand feet on the northern slopes of Kanchenjuna, Chorten Nyima has been a very special holy place since at least the time of Padma...

ago by terton Pema Lingpa. Memorial Chorten The Memorial Chorten, also known as the 'Thimphu Chorten', is a chorten in Thimphu located on Doeboom Lam in...

over an invasion from Tibet. Drukdra was the son of a consort of Tenpia Nyima. While ruling as the second Paro Penlop, he named the fortress Drukgyal...

Tashilhunpo Monastery in 1959 by the Red Guards, and consecrated in a chorten built as the receptacle. On 23 January 1989, the Panchen Lama delivered...

expedition to Tibet (1910) Chinese settlements in Tibet Chögyam Trungpa Chörten Cho Oyu Chowa, Tibet CIA Tibetan program Contemporary Tibetan art Cuisine...

main gate to the city of Lhasa used to run through the large Pargo Kaling chorten and contained holy relics of the Buddha Mindukpa. In 2000 the urbanised...

Kumbum (literally: '100,000 images') of the Palcho Monastery, the largest chörten in Tibet. The Kumbum was commissioned by a Gyantse prince in 1427 and was...

dragons, can be seen on nearly every gompa in Tibet. The design of stupas (chörtens) can vary, from roundish walls in Kham to squarish, four-sided walls in...