Monlam Prayer Festival (祈愿大法会), the most important festival in the Tibetan Buddhist calendar, is celebrated in Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan provinces and the Tibet Autonomous Region. Hundreds of ...

KAT WADE / SPECIAL TO THE STAR-ADVERTISER Nepalese monk Lama Tsultrim Sherpa from Vancouver, British Columbia, works on the colorful and intricate offerings, or torma, with representations of mostly ...

Monlam, the most important prayer event for many Tibetans was banned during the Cultural Revolution in China but once again in recent years it is celebrated in many areas. 17 March 2015 • 1:11pm A ...

Buddhist monks during the Monlam great prayer festival. Photograph: Roman Pilipey/EPA Monlam, or the great prayer festival, is the most important prayer event for many Tibetans. It was banned during ...

BEIJING – Defiant Buddhist monks banned from marking a key Tibetan New Year prayer festival marched in protest in China's southwest, rights groups and officials said. It was the latest resistance to ...

Taking place on the 4th-11th day of the first Tibetan Lunar month, Monlam, the Great Prayer Festival, is one of the most important festivals in Tibetan Buddhism. Pictures of this year's festival ...

Photos and videos surfacing on Chinese social media show a heavy security presence at the annual Monlam Prayer Festival at Kumbum monastery, in a region with a large Tibetan population in China's ...

The event in Tibet was established in 1409 by Tsong Khapa, the founder of the Geluk tradition. As the greatest religious festival in Tibet, thousands of monks (of the three main monasteries of Drepung ...

Kevin Frayer from Getty Images photographs Monlam or the Great Prayer Festival, the most important prayer event for many Tibetan Buddhists Monks gather at Labrang monastery in Gansu province, China, ...

Monlam, the most important prayer event for many Tibetans was banned during the Cultural Revolution in China but once again in recent years it is celebrated in many areas.