According to Liu, over the years, the Hebei institute has been involved in some major cultural heritage conservation and maintenance projects such as the restoration of the Sakya Monastery in Xizang ...

Others, like the Hanging Temple in China and Sumela Monastery in Turkey, virtually hover in midair, carefully balanced on the faces of steep, rocky cliffs. From the Buddhist traditions of Asia to ...

“We are financially quite stable, but monks are at the heart of a monastery – they are what gives a monastery meaning and without them it loses its meaning,” he says. The Cistercians voted ...