And on the far left there is a 400 year old Buddhist monastery.

During the reign of the seventh Kirata ruler, Jitedasti, Buddhist monks entered Kathmandu valley and established a forest monastery at Sankhu.

These are the Helandariou Monastery (Serbian), the Zografou Monastery (Bulgarian) and the Agiou Panteleimonos Monastery (Russian).

Historic Buddhist site

The Savvino Storozhevsky Monastery (Саввино Сторожевский монастырь) is a Russian Orthodox monastery in Zvenigorod.

Monk's prayer beads, Sera Monastery.

A monastery once stood here.

Are you a Buddhist?

Are you a Buddhist?

These monks live inside the monastery.

These monks live inside the monastery.

Growth in a Buddhist Economy

Buddhist monks shave their heads.

Buddhist monks shave their heads.

She is a Theravada Buddhist.

The Buddhist revival in China .

She says he later joined a monastery.

The monastery is in Dranang, Lhoka Prefecture.

Myanmar has a Buddhist majority population.

Thailand has a Buddhist majority population.

The monastery, founded by Irish or Scottish monks in about 620, is held to be the oldest monastery in Bavaria.

We stopped at the monastery and went inside.

The monastery was abandoned during the Soviet period.

All around the monastery are caves and khachkars.

Which schools is Buddhist thought divided into?

The district administration in consultation with Department of Archaeology had originally given permission to the Buddhist Monastery Establishment and Conservation Committee to establish the Buddha statue on 24 February, 2008, according to the Mysansar.

The monastery was first mentioned in documents in 1458.

In 1918, the New Jerusalem Monastery was closed down.

The monastery was first mentioned in the 9th century.

Photo of Golden Monastery in Mandalay by Si Thu Aung.

He was buried at the Shuamta Monastery in Kakheti, Georgia.

In 1575, he became the abbot of the Novospassky Monastery.

I'm a Buddhist and My Friend is a Muslim.

Generally speaking, mainstream Buddhist denominations held no Sunday services.

The monastery sits atop the Pochayiv hill 70 km from Ternopil.

St. Benedict established his first monastery on top of Monte Cassino.

The first monastery was destroyed by Arabs in the 9th century.

The monastery was famous because of the relics that it housed.

Around 963, he entered the monastery of St. Gerald of Aurillac.

Here he found 5,000 more Buddhist monks in 100 monasteries.

Thereafter, the expansion of Buddhism to the north led to the formation of Buddhist communities and even Buddhist kingdoms in the oases of Central Asia.

The cathedral was the largest of three churches of St. Demetrius Monastery.

Today, John III's body rests in the Monastery of Jerónimos in Lisbon.

The Monastery of Ostrog (, ) is a monastery of the Serbian Orthodox Church placed against an almost vertical background, high up in the large rock of Ostroška Greda, in Montenegro.

On the approach path to the monastery, there is a Lakhang (village level monastery) and a temple of Urgyan Tsemo ( U rgyan rTse mo ) which, like the main monastery, is located on a rocky plateau with a precipitous projection of several hundred feet over the valley.