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Edit The Spectator 15 Sep 2016
Last week in Ladakh I went panting from one Buddhist monastery to another. Culturally, racially and historically, Ladakh is Tibetan, and the type of Buddhism practised there is Tibetan Buddhism. With a knowledgable local guide we visited the great Ladakhi monasteries at Basgo, Likir, Thikse, Alchi and Lamayuru. At each one we climbed the steps, took off our shoes and paid our respects in the inner temples ... Take Palden Lhamo, for example....

Salman Khan was accompanied by Iulia Vantur during his meet with Dalai Lama

Edit Bollywood Life 13 Aug 2016
By Rajat Tripathi . Published. August 13, 2016 1.25 pm. comments. Superstar Salman Khan broke into tears at ‘brother’ Rajjat Barjatya’s prayer meet!. This is how Salman Khan is being trolled by Twitteratis for acquittal in black buck poaching case!. Salman Khan and A R Rahman graced the sendoff ceremony of Indian Contingent for Rio Olympics 2016 ... Whoa! ... From the earlier pictures it looked like Salman visited the Thikse Monastery alone ... ....

Holiday on ice

Edit Deccan Herald 12 Mar 2016
Ladakh in winter. ANURAG MALLICK & PRIYA GANAPATHY fuse snow travel with slow travel as they discover an icy realm of frozen rivers and waterfalls with Ladakhi hospitality ... Clearly, travelling this far in non-tourist season wasn’t the done thing ... Cool climes ... The serene prayer ceremony at Thikse Gompa was followed by a Ladakhi breakfast in a nearby home with salty gur-gur chai (yak butter tea), served with khambir (local bread) ... ....

Asia's Most Amazing Buddhas

Edit Huffington Post 11 Sep 2015
From the bespectacled to the bubbly, the daunting to the daring, Asia's Buddhas are among its most extraordinary cultural, artistic, and of course, spiritual attractions. With this in mind, the members of travel website Trippy.com offer their favorite places to pay homage. Did we miss one of your favorite Buddhas? Let us know on Trippy.com!. � Santorini/Dollar Photo Club. 1 ... 2 ... Photo credit ... Maitreya Buddha, Thikse Monastery; Ladakh, India....

Enter the dragon

Edit Deccan Herald 22 Aug 2015
Our next stop was the old summer capital Shey on the Leh-Thikse road lined with poplar and Ladakhi willow trees ... A 4 km trekking path connects Shey to Thikse Monastery, past the largest chorten fields in Ladakh with hundreds of whitewashed stupas strewn across a lunar landscape ... The Forgotten Hero and the critically acclaimed Hollywood docu-film Samsara, featuring monks of Thikse Monastery making mandalas....

A biker’s guide to conquest of the mountains - Richa K. Devi and her team ...

Edit The Telegraph India 15 Sep 2014
Guwahati, Sept. 14. “You must learn to respect the mountains. That’s when they are kind to you,” said Richa K ... And the 27-year-old from Guwahati did have her mind over matter for sure ... We ate every three hours.” ... After two nights at Manali, the bikers camped for a night at Sarchu, an open, barren and treacherous section over 16,000 feet, before spending a couple of nights at Thikse Gompa (monastery) near Leh ... ....

A Buddhist enclave high in Himalayas

Edit Independent online (SA) 08 Aug 2014
New Delhi - At Thikse Monastery, in a shrine draped in colourful silks, the air thick with juniper smoke, morning prayers are starting to adopt the unruly atmosphere of a school assembly ... At the back, the smallest monk of all, a three-year-old who sends Sonam into fits of maternal clucking, begins to nod off ... Picture. Henry Wismayer ... This, I ponder on my final morning, standing in the courtyard of Thikse Monastery, is Ladakh's magic ... ....
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