Bhutan's enchanting monasteries, including Taktshang Monastery on a cliff in Paro Valley and Punakha Dzong at the confluence ...

Breakfasts at Dharamshala's monastic kitchens start early, around 6:00 a.m. You can expect traditional Tibetan fare like ...

With its glorious mountains, idyllic villages and spectacular ancient monasteries, Armenia is a place of rare beauty. But ...

Mount Athos is home to twenty monasteries where only monks are allowed to live and only males are allowed to visit, women are ...

However, the Church set very high standards of cleanliness, so medieval monasteries were places of good public health. close public healthThe health of the population as a whole, and methods used ...

Archimandrite Athanasius (Nos) has two obediences in the Church: he is the abbot of the famous monastery of St. Onuphrius in Jabłeczna, and the dean of all Orthodox monasteries in Poland. Although the ...

I also found official data from the government and relevant institutions. The interviewees, who came from poor families, were grateful to Buddhist monasteries for educating them and providing them ...

Here, Mother Maria del Carmen (at left) and Sister Virginia stand by a dessert table at a meeting of nuns from nine monasteries of the Conceptionist Order. This story appears in the November 2016 ...

Janina Ramirez discovers how monasteries shaped all aspects of medieval Britain and created a dazzling array of art, architecture and literature, a story of faith, sacrifice, violence and corruption.

American cook and food writer Jody Eddy’s friendship with Shinobu Namae, the chef behind three-Michelin-star Tokyo restaurant L’Effervescence, was ultimately what gained her access to the ...