A fire has hit the most important shrine in Tibetan Buddhism - the Jokhang Monastery in Lhasa. Footage posted online showed flames billowing from the roof and what appeared to be at least one ...

The alternate name refers to the festival wherein Tibetan Buddhists make religious ... barley wine and cash to the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa. Facing the statues of Palden Lhamo in the Jokhang ...

Jokhang Temple, Sera Monastery and the shopping haven, Barkhor Street. Southwest of Lhasa lies Tibet's second largest city and tourist hub, Shigatse. Shigatse bears a striking resemblance to Lhasa.

A Lama adds ghee to the lamp in front of the figures of Buddha in the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Mar. 11, 2009. A celebration for the ghee ...

and modeled after the Jokhang Temple Monastery, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Lhasa. "Qamba," also spelled "chamba," is derived from the bodhisattva Maitreya, while "lin" is the Tibetan word for ...

Barkhor Street is one big circular street that goes around Jokhang Temple and is filled to the brim with shops and stalls catering to those who want to take a little piece of Tibet home.