Chimi Lhakhang is a Buddhist monastery of Bhutan which is popular for being a tourist destination that has brought great ...

Nobody embodied this idea more provocatively than the 16th-century lama Drukpa Kunley, better known as the Divine Madman, who remains a beloved saint in much of Bhutan. Carousing across the ...

As “The Monk and the Gun” opens and we listen to radio reports about upcoming mock elections in Bhutan, an elderly lama, played by real-life lama Kelsang Choejay, instructs his young monk ...

Believed to be an embodiment of the Sixth Dalai Lama, there are less than 10,000 that survive on the roof of the world. In the scenic Phobjikha Valley of Bhutan, the natives eagerly await their ...

We were welcomed with rituals performed by a resident lama, who tied sacred threads on our wrists and blessed us with a wooden phallus -- a symbol of good luck in Bhutan -- as a part of the ceremony.

The lama would clearly chant the mantra or the texts to the disciples ... the President of the Loden Foundation and the author of many books and articles including The History of Bhutan.