This week, Traveler Editor in Chief Keith Bellows and Suzanne Roberts, winner of the “Next Great Travel Writer” contest, are blogging during their trip through Mongolia. Today Suzanne writes of her ...
Reporting from Shand Khiid, Mongolia — In the crimson-painted interior of a monastery in central Mongolia, boys as young as 6 face one another cross-legged on benches and chant Tibetan Buddhist ...
In his speech, Pope Francis twice cited the Dhammapada, the most widely-read Buddhist text that is a collection of sayings of the Buddha. Khamba Nomun Khan, the head of the Gandan Monastery in ...
In a major educational initiative, Nalanda University and Mongolia’s Gandan Monastery will be linked to promote academic and cultural exchanges. Modi also welcomed the signing of an MoU between the ...