Believed to be 19th century devotional items for making merit

Digital mokugyo aids sutra recitation while drumming

Appointees to fill key roles previously held by senior monastics

End to monastic expulsions in sight

Sustaining a living tradition

Government spokesman denies reports institute is being demolished

Exhibition headed by Wei Lizhong, a master of Chinese block printing

Foundation of pagoda dates back to a powerful monk and imperial patron

Expulsion of monastic residents suspended

Shad Tchup Ling in the Northern Urals faces demolition deadline

Burgeoning tourism industry swamps McLeod Ganj

Bhutan marks 400th anniversary of Zhabdrung Rinpoche's arrival from Tibet

Wooden bust of an arhat dated to 13th–14th century

Bronze relics offer scholars an insight into the scale of the long-lost pagoda