According to a fact-sheet on the January 7 earthquake – which levelled thousands of houses and killed over 100 people in ...

Like the Potala Palace, the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery holds a lot of significance in Tibetan Buddhism. Not only was the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery founded by the first Dalai Lama, but later it became the ...

IMAGE: His Holiness The Dalai Lama conducts a prayer ceremony for the victims of the earthquake in Tibet at the Tashi Lhunpo monastery in Bylakuppe on Thursday, January 9, 2025. All photographs ...

It was not immediately known whether he was in his Tashi Lhunpo Monastery at the time. The epicenter was about 25 kilometers (15 miles) from the main part of the city, which is called Xigaze in ...

After the strong earthquake levelled thousands of houses and killed over 100 people in Tibet on Tuesday, Tibet was referred to as ’Xizang’ or China’s Xizang, in Chinese media coverage ...

Shigatse is known for being home to the prominent Tashi Lhunpo Monastery. This monastery was built by the first Dalai Lama and acts as a seat to the Panchen Lama, the most important leader in ...

Rescuers in the freezing, high-altitude Tibet region in western China searched a second day for any remaining victims of a deadly earthquake that struck near a holy city for Tibetan Buddhists, before ...

The top spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism was visiting the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery in Bylakuppe town which has the largest Tibetan settlement in the world outside Tibet. The Dalai Lama urged the ...

It was not immediately known whether he was in his Tashi Lhunpo Monastery at the time. The epicenter was about 15 miles from the main part of the city, which is called Xigaze in Chinese and ...