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  2. List of Tibetan monasteries - Wikipedia

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    The monastery is the second-largest in Asia. [9] Thikse Monastery: Ladakh Gelug 15th century Tholing Monastery: West Tibet Tibet Institute Rikon: Rikon, Switzerland Nyingma: Since 2007, the monastery comprises representatives of all four great traditions : Nyingma, Kagyu, Sakya and Gelug. Tingri Monastery Tsang Tradruk Temple: Lhokha Gelug

  3. Kyaung - Wikipedia

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    The modern Burmese language term kyaung (ကျောင်း) descends from the Old Burmese word kloṅ (က္လောင်). [4] The strong connection between religion and schooling is reflected by fact that the kyaung is the same word now used to refer to secular schools. [5]

  4. Tibetan Buddhist wall paintings - Wikipedia

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    Detail wall painting, Ladakh Detail of a wall painting in a Buddhist temple in Ladakh/India. The support for wall paintings is made of earthen plaster, usually consisting of more than one layer of earthen plaster, in which the last layer is rendered as smoothly as possible.

  5. Tradruk Temple - Wikipedia

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    Tradruk Temple (Tibetan: ཁྲ་འབྲུག་དགོན་པ།, Wylie: khra-’brug dgon-pa, Lhasa dialect: [ʈʂʰaŋʈʂuk kø̃pa], referred to as Changzhu Monastery in Chinese) in the Yarlung Valley is the earliest great geomantic temple after the Jokhang and some sources say it predates that temple.

  6. Milarepa's Cave, Nyalam - Wikipedia

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    There are images of Milarepa, Tsongkhapa, and Shri Devi, a protectress whose mule is said to have left a footprint in the stone when she visited Milarepa in a vision. [ 4 ] Restoration work within the cave and the monastery was undertaken by artists and craftsmen from Nepal [ 8 ] and was financed in the 1970s by the Chinese government .

  7. File:Burning Bush, St Catherine's Monastery.jpg - Wikipedia

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  8. Persecution of Buddhists - Wikipedia

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    Qutaybah ibn Muslim, the Arab general of Khorasan conquered a number of territories in Central Asia including Samarkand where he broke a number of images. [24] Several instances of Buddhist shrines being destroyed by the advancing Muslims are recorded though the religion continued to survive in some places for a considerable period of time.

  9. List of World Heritage Sites in Portugal - Wikipedia

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    Both the Monastery and the Tower, located in the Belém district of Lisbon along the Tagus river, are symbolically linked to the Age of Discovery when Portugal explored the world. The Monastery was founded in the memory of Prince Henry the Navigator and for the monks to pray for the king and the seafarers.

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