Drepung Monastery is actually a collection of Buddhist chapels and colleges located about 8km west of Lhasa. The word Drepung can be literally translated as "rice pile", a name whose meaning becomes ...

The 11th Panchen Lama Bainqen Erdini Qoigyijabu paid his first visit to Drepung Monastery, in Southwest China’s Xizang (Tibet) Autonomous Region, on Tuesday, encouraging the Buddhist monks to make ...

Tibetan Buddhist monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery will construct a White Tara (Buddha of longevity and success) mandala sand painting and perform special ceremonies August 10-13 at Asia Society ...

Photo taken on June 25, 2009 shows the figure of Buddha at the Drepung monastery in Lhasa, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. The ground-breaking ceremony of the water supply and drainage ...

BEIJING — A major Buddhist monastery in Tibet reopened this week five months after being shut by the authorities during anti-government riots that rocked the region's capital, a staff member said ...

Built in 1416, the Drepung Monastery is situated at the foot of the Mountain Gambo Utse, about 10 kilometers (3.1 miles) to the western suburbs of Lhasa. It is the largest and most influential ...

People visit a giant thangka marking the start of the annual Shoton Festival on Wednesday in Lhasa. [Photo by Daqiong/chinadaily.com.cn] Thousands of residents stood in line to see a giant thangka — a ...

Seven monks from the Drepung Gomang Monastery arrived in Laguna Beach last weekend, and a week of work began taking shape. Returning to the coastal community for the first time since 2019, their daily ...