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  • Gandantegchinlen Monastery is a Tibetan-style monastery in the Mongolian capital of Ulaan Baatar restored and revitalized since 1990. The Tibetan name translates to the "Great Place of Complete Joy". It currently has over 150 monks in residence.  Gandantegchinlen Khiid monastery was closed in 1938, but reopened in 1944 and was allowed to continue as the only functioning Buddhist monastery as a token to traditional Mongolian culture and religion. With the end of Marxism in Mongolia in 1990 restrictions on worship were lifted.
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  • Gandantegchinlen Monastery is a Tibetan-style monastery in the Mongolian capital of Ulaan Baatar restored and revitalized since 1990. The Tibetan name translates to the "Great Place of Complete Joy". It currently has over 150 monks in residence.  Gandantegchinlen Khiid monastery was closed in 1938, but reopened in 1944 and was allowed to continue as the only functioning Buddhist monastery as a token to traditional Mongolian culture and religion. With the end of Marxism in Mongolia in 1990 restrictions on worship were lifted.
    gandan-monastery-2.jpg
  • Gandantegchinlen Monastery is a Tibetan-style monastery in the Mongolian capital of Ulaan Baatar restored and revitalized since 1990. The Tibetan name translates to the "Great Place of Complete Joy". It currently has over 150 monks in residence.  Gandantegchinlen Khiid monastery was closed in 1938, but reopened in 1944 and was allowed to continue as the only functioning Buddhist monastery as a token to traditional Mongolian culture and religion. With the end of Marxism in Mongolia in 1990 restrictions on worship were lifted.
    gandan-monastery-3.jpg
  • Turning Prayer Wheels at Swayambhunath Temple - Swayambhunath Temple is one of the main Buddhist temples in Kathmandu. Many Tibetan people live in the area, and make their daily procession around the temple, turning prayer wheels as they pass.
    swayambhunath-3.jpg
  • A prayer flag is a colorful panel or rectangular cloth often found strung along mountain ridges and peaks high in the Himalayas to bless the surrounding countryside or for other purposes. Unknown in other branches of Buddhism, prayer flags are believed to have originated with Bon, which predated Buddhism in Tibet. Traditionally they are woodblock printed with texts and images.
    tibetan-prayer-flags-2.jpg
  • A prayer flag is a colorful panel or rectangular cloth often found strung along mountain ridges and peaks high in the Himalayas to bless the surrounding countryside or for other purposes. Unknown in other branches of Buddhism, prayer flags are believed to have originated with Bon, which predated Buddhism in Tibet. Traditionally they are woodblock printed with texts and images.
    tibetan-prayer-flags-4.jpg
  • A prayer flag is a colorful panel or rectangular cloth often found strung along mountain ridges and peaks high in the Himalayas to bless the surrounding countryside or for other purposes. Unknown in other branches of Buddhism, prayer flags are believed to have originated with Bon, which predated Buddhism in Tibet. Traditionally they are woodblock printed with texts and images.
    tibetan-prayer-flags-1.jpg
  • A prayer flag is a colorful panel or rectangular cloth often found strung along mountain ridges and peaks high in the Himalayas to bless the surrounding countryside or for other purposes. Unknown in other branches of Buddhism, prayer flags are believed to have originated with Bon, which predated Buddhism in Tibet. Traditionally they are woodblock printed with texts and images.
    tibetan-prayer-flags-3.jpg
  • Third Eye at Swayambhunath Temple - Swayambhunath Temple is one of the liveliest Buddhist temples in Kathmandu if not all of Nepal. Many Tibetans live in the area, and make their daily 'kora' or procession around the temple, turning prayer wheels as they pass. Swayambhunath is also known affectionately as "Monkey Temple" for the hundreds of monkeys who inhabit the area and playfully jump around the Buddha, stairways and temple buildings.
    swayambhunath-5.jpg
  • Swayambhunath Temple - one of the liveliest Buddhist temples in Kathmandu. Many Tibetans live in the area and make their daily 'kora' or procession around the temple as a form of prayer.
    swayambhunath-4.jpg
  • Swayambhunath Temple is also known affectionately as "Monkey Temple" for the hundreds of monkeys who inhabit the area and playfully jump around the Buddha, stairways and temple buildings.
    swayambhunath-1.jpg
  • Tibetan Monk Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche devoted considerable efforts to founding and sustaining temples and monasteries where the study and practice of Buddhism could be undertaken. One of his last great tasks was the founding of a new Shechen monastery in Nepal to replace the destroyed one in Tibet.  Fifty sculptors, painters, goldsmiths, silversmiths and builders flocked to the site from Bhutan, Tibet and India to take part in the work.
    shechen-temple-image.jpg
  • Sanmon Gate at Zenkoji Temple is considered an Important Cultural Asset in Japan. It contains five wooden Buddhist statues  as well as a plaque which contains five hidden doves in the lettering. The temple was built in the 7th century and the city of Nagano was built around the temple. The temple was founded before Buddhism iwas split into several different sects in Japan so it is co-managed by  priests from different schools of Japanese Buddhism.
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  • Jokhang Monastery is the most important Buddhist temple in Tibet, located on Barkhor Square in Lhasa and means the 'House of the Buddha'.  For most Tibetans it is the most sacred and important temple in Tibet. It is presently controlled by the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.  This temple has remained a key center of Tibetan Buddhist pilgrimages for centuries.
    jokhang-monastery-5.jpg
  • This unique prayer wheel is more common at Tibetan buddhism, therefore this is a special feature at Hase-dera Temple in Kamakura
    hasedera-prayer-wheel-02.jpg