These extraordinary figures have graced this small monastery in Alchi, a hamlet high in the Indian Himalayas along the border with Tibet, for about 900 years. They are among the best-preserved ...

Alchi Monastery, founded by the famous scholar Rinchen Zangpo in the 10th century, is more of a monastic complex. It is unique as the monastery is built on a flat ground, unlike other monasteries of L ...

Mystic Andrew Harvey once spent five solitary days in the Himalayan village of Alchi, after which he declared in his book, A Journey in Ladakh, “The things that ignore us save us in the end.” Perhaps ...

Alchi reveals itself to the visitor hesitantly. As you leave the highway from Leh, take the sharp left to go on the bridge over a speeding Indus and climb up the curvaceous road, the village remains ...

Vasudhara-Tara Detail: The Himalayan monastery of Alchi houses 11th-century Buddhist art of unparalleled beauty and finesse, such as the image of the green Vasudhara/Tara. Photo: Peter van Ham Alchi’s ...

Foreword by His Holiness, the Dalai Lama -- Introducing the sanctuaries : specialities, singularities, peculiarities -- Surrounding the sanctuaries : mountains, deserts, valleys -- Founding the ...

In honor of this year’s 33rd annual Kalachakra Festival, Geringer Global Travel is offering an exciting new 15-day Kalachakra 2014 India Holiday tour (available July 1 through July 30th, 2014), ...