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  • Dharma trumpets are blown during festivities. Monks and pilgrims mix to celebrate the Lamayuru Festival 5-6 June, 2013, Lamayuru Monastery. Lamayuru Gompa (monastery) is built above the ruins of the old one, along the Srinagar-Leh highway.
    India-Pigments028.jpg
  • A Tibetan man peers out from a Tibetan Buddhist temple in Kathmandu.
    Nepal-Kathmandu016.jpg
  • Nepali women pray at Swayambunath.
    Horner_Nepal063.jpg
  • Prayer flags protect homes outside the town of Punakha.
    Bhutan-HiddenKingdom071.jpg
  • Horner_Kashmir064.jpg
  • Buddhist monks gather together for the annual mass inauguration of new monks at the Wat Phra Dhammakaya, a Buddhist temple in Khlong Luang District, Pathum Thani Province north of Bangkok, Thailand. It is the centre of the Dhammakaya Movement, a Buddhist sect founded in the 1970s and led by Phra Dhammachayo.
    Bangkok-Surreal123.jpg
  • Buddhist monks gather together for the annual mass inauguration of new monks at the Wat Phra Dhammakaya, a Buddhist temple in Khlong Luang District, Pathum Thani Province north of Bangkok, Thailand. It is the centre of the Dhammakaya Movement, a Buddhist sect founded in the 1970s and led by Phra Dhammachayo.
    Bangkok-Surreal048.jpg
  • Labrang Monastery during Tibetan New Year celebrations, Gansu Province, China
    LabrangMonastery_Gansu 15 (1)-Edit.tif
  • Mahabodhi Temple, home of the Banyan Tree under which the Lord Budha received enlightenment, Bodh Gaya.
    Horner_India0059.jpg
  • A Burmese monk makes a pilgrimage to the extraordinary sight of Kyaiktiyo, or the Golden Rock Pagoda. A single hair belonging to the Lord Buddha is said to hold the gigantic golden boulder from sliding off the cliff atop which it is perched.
    Horner-Burma047.jpg
  • Zen buddhist garden at Ryoan Ji in Kyoto.
    Japan-Koyasan015.jpg
  • Devout pilgrims prostrate themselves thousands of times in their arduous quest for enlightenment. <br />
<br />
Each day during Losar (Tibetan New Year),thousands of pilgrims walk the kora around Labrang Monastery, the largest in Amdo Province, and indeed China.<br />
<br />
Established in 1709, Labrang housed over 4000 monks at its peak, but now only has around 1500 monks.
    LabrangMonastery_Gansu 152.jpg
  • Boudhanath Stupa in Kathmandu Valley is one of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world and the centre of the Tibetan community in Nepal.
    Nepal-Boudinath007.jpg
  • A trader of buddhist amulets plies his trade around the lanes of monks' quarters at Wat Mahathat.
    Bangkok-Surreal071.jpg
  • Rural tribes make their annual pilgrimage to the Punakha Festival,where buddhist rituals and dancing are held inside the magnificent Dzong, or monastery.
    Bhutan-HiddenKingdom038.jpg
  • A novice monk during prayer studies at Semtokha Monastery near Thimphu.
    B&W-Portrait-Collection042.jpg
  • In the streets and alleyways around Bangkok's Giant Swing and Wat Suthat, giant bronze casts of buddha are made to adorn the Thai capital's buddhist temples, or wats.
    Buddha-Genesis056.jpg
  • Labrang Monastery during Tibetan New Year celebrations, Gansu Province, China
    LabrangMonastery_Gansu 32 (1).jpg
  • A monk visits the ruins of Ta Phrom.
    Img095-Edit.jpg
  • A monks tends a shrine at Emperor Jade Pagoda (Chua Ngoc Hoang or Phuoc Hai Tu), Ho Chi Minh City.
    Horner_Vietnam096.jpg
  • His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama leads a prayer meeting at Sherboling Monastery, the day after Tibet Uprising Day.
    HornerDharamshala-1386.jpg
  • Sacred interior of the Manjsuhri Lhakhang. Alchi artwork.
    Horner_Kashmir069.jpg
  • The monks of Shaolin Temple (literally means "temple in the woods of Shaoshi Mountain") are trained in the martial art of Kung Fu.<br />
<br />
Myth and reality blur with Shaolin and its kung fu. Some consider Bodhidharma as the founder of Shaolin kung fu but references to warrior monks existed before this period.<br />
<br />
Bodhidharma was the founder of Dhyana (Chan) Buddhism and this coincided with the start of the spiritual martial art of Shaolin kung fu.
    China046.tiff
  • Perched on top of a hill on the western edge of the Kathmandu Valley, the ancient Swayambunath Stupa (known as the "Monkey Temple") is Kathmandu's most important Buddhist shrine. The sleepy, all-seeing Buddha eyes that stare out from the top have become the quintessential symbol of Nepal.<br />
<br />
Founded about 2,000 years ago, Kathmandu Valley was filled with a great lake, and according to Buddhist legend, a single perfect lotus grew in the center of the lake. When the bodhisattva Manjusri drained the lake with a slash of his sword, the lotus flower settled on top of the hill and magically transformed into the stupa.Hence it is known as the Self-Created (swayambhu) Stupa.
    Nepal-Swayambunath010.tiff
  • View over the surrounding arid mountains towards Lamayuru Monastery,built above the ruins of the old one, along the Srinagar-Leh highway.
    Horner_Kashmir014.tiff
  • Labrang Monastery during Tibetan New Year celebrations.
    LabrangMonastery_Gansu 162-Edit-Edit.tif
  • Buddhist pilgrims visit Drepung Monastery outside Lhasa.On auspicious dates sacred shrines are opened. The monastery is home to less than 1/10th of its population of monks before the Chinese invasion.
    Tibet-Lhasa002.jpg
  • View over surrounding arid mountains from Lamayuru Monastery. Lamayuru Gompa (monastery) is built above the ruins of the old one.
    Horner_Kashmir021.jpg
  • A Buddhist monk meditates in prayer at one of the thousands of shrines in Amarapura, Burma's "deserted city".
    Burma-Sagaing003.jpg
  • The magnificent Borobodur,a 9th-century Mahayana Buddhist Temple, rises above the forest below. Waisak Day (Buddha's birthday) draws pilgrim monks from all over Asia.
    Indonesia042.jpg
  • The headquarters of Fo Guang Shan, located in Kaohsiung, is the largest Buddhist monastery in Taiwan.Fo Guang Shan - ???; ("Buddha's Light Mountain") is a Chinese Mahayana Buddhist monastic order with huge international reach.
    Foguangshan 9910.jpg
  • Bronze casts of Buddha statues are made at Phraruangsamai Buddha Factory.
    Buddha-Genesis004.jpg
  • Prayer flags adorn a sacred hilltop above the Ladkahi capital of Leh, with the Zanskar range beyond.
    India_Ladakh 7069.jpg
  • Lotus flowers on sale for pilgrims at the Temple of the Tooth, Kandy.
    Sri_Lanka_Polonnaruwa 12984.jpg
  • Buddhist monks gather together for Makha Bucha Day at the Wat Phra Dhammakaya, a Buddhist temple in Khlong Luang District, Pathum Thani Province north of Bangkok, Thailand. It is the centre of the Dhammakaya Movement, a Buddhist sect founded in the 1970s and led by Phra Dhammachayo.
    Horner_Bangkok041.jpg
  • Monks prepare for evening meditation on Makha Bucha Day at the Dhammakaya Temple outside Bangkok.
    Makha_Bucha 2541 (1).jpg
  • Pilgrims travel by rowing boat along the Yen River to the Perfume Pagoda, the most important Buddhist pilgrim site in Vietnam.
    Vietnam-Hanoi073.jpg
  • Pilgrims in prayer at the sacred Bodhi Tree, the oldest documented living tree in the world, and said to be a sapling from the original Bodhi tree in Bodh Gaya, India. Anuradhapura.
    SriLanka008.jpg
  • Student novice monks studying traditional buddhist scripts in the very location where Siddartha himself acquired most of his learning, at Sarnath, outside Varanasi.
    Shades-of-India086.jpg
  • Buddhist monks wearing heavy maroon robes congregate outside the main prayer hall of Labrang Monastery, for Losar prayers, at Tibet's New Year.<br />
<br />
Each day during Losar thousands of pilgrims walk the kora around the monastery, which is lined with prayer wheels.<br />
<br />
Established in 1709, Labrang housed over 4000 monks at its peak, but now only has around 1500 monks.
    LabrangMonastery_Gansu 50.jpg
  • Buddhist monks wearing heavy maroon robes head towards the main prayer hall of Labrang Monastery, for Losar prayers, at Tibet's new year.<br />
<br />
Each day during Losar thousands of pilgrims walk the kora around the monastery, which is lined with prayer wheels.<br />
<br />
Established in 1709, Labrang housed over 4000 monks at its peak, but now only has around 1500 monks.
    LabrangMonastery_Gansu 195.jpg
  • Perched on top of a hill on the western edge of the Kathmandu Valley, the ancient Swayambunath Stupa (known as the "Monkey Temple") is Kathmandu's most important Buddhist shrine. The sleepy, all-seeing Buddha eyes that stare out from the top have become the quintessential symbol of Nepal.<br />
<br />
Founded about 2,000 years ago, Kathmandu Valley was filled with a great lake, and according to Buddhist legend, a single perfect lotus grew in the center of the lake. When the bodhisattva Manjusri drained the lake with a slash of his sword, the lotus flower settled on top of the hill and magically transformed into the stupa.Hence it is known as the Self-Created (swayambhu) Stupa.
    Nepal-Swayambunath004.jpg
  • Boudhanath Stupa in Kathmandu Valley is one of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world and the centre of the Tibetan community in Nepal.
    Nepal-Boudinath005.jpg
  • One of the two highly revered golden Buddha statues inside the Jokhang Temple ("House of the Lord") in Lhasa is the holiest site in Tibetan Buddhism. It draws thousands of prostrating Tibetan pilgrims, as well as curious foreign tourists every year. <br />
<br />
The Jokhang Temple was founded in 647 by King Songtsen Gampo (r.617-49), the first ruler of a unified Tibet, and his two foreign wives who are credited with bringing Buddhism to Tibet. The king's first wife, Princess Bhrikuti,the sister of the Nepalese king, while his second wife, Princess Wencheng was the niece or daughter of the Chinese emperor.
    Tibet044.jpg
  • Devout pilgrims prostrate themselves thousands of times in their arduous quest for enlightenment.<br />
<br />
Each day during Losar (Tibetan New Year),thousands of pilgrims walk the kora around the Jokhang temple and the Potala Palace.
    Tibet015.jpg
  • Loy Kratong Festival, Wat Mahathat, Sukhothai
    Thailand_Sukhothai012.jpg
  • In the streets and alleyways around Bangkok's Giant Swing and Wat Suthat, giant bronze casts of buddha are made to adorn the Thai capital's buddhist temples, or wats.
    Buddha-Genesis055.jpg
  • Tibetan monks at prayer during Losar, at Mahabodhi Temple, home of the Banyan Tree under which the Lord Buddha received enlightenment, Bodh Gaya.
    India-Pigments138.jpg
  • Buddhist monks gather together for the annual mass inauguration of new monks at the Wat Phra Dhammakaya, a Buddhist temple in Khlong Luang District, Pathum Thani Province north of Bangkok, Thailand. It is the centre of the Dhammakaya Movement, a Buddhist sect founded in the 1970s and led by Phra Dhammachayo.
    Bangkok-Surreal045.jpg
  • Buddhist monks wearing heavy maroon robes congregate outside the main prayer hall of Labrang Monastery, for Losar prayers, at Tibet's New Year.
    LabrangMonastery_Gansu 117.jpg
  • Spare buddha heads of bronze casts are left lying around,after failing quality control, Phraruangsamai Buddha Factory.
    Buddha-Genesis017.jpg
  • Pilgrims walk the kora surrounding Ganden Monastery, one of the most important of the Gelugpa Sect (Yellow Hat). The monastery is surrounded by a kora, or holy circuit which attracts pilgrims.
    B&W-PRINT-COLLECTION017.jpg
  • Perched on top of a hill on the western edge of the Kathmandu Valley, the ancient Swayambunath Stupa (known as the "Monkey Temple") is Kathmandu's most important Buddhist shrine. The sleepy, all-seeing Buddha eyes that stare out from the top have become the quintessential symbol of Nepal.<br />
<br />
Founded about 2,000 years ago, Kathmandu Valley was filled with a great lake, and according to Buddhist legend, a single perfect lotus grew in the center of the lake. When the bodhisattva Manjusri drained the lake with a slash of his sword, the lotus flower settled on top of the hill and magically transformed into the stupa.Hence it is known as the Self-Created (swayambhu) Stupa.
    Nepal-Swayambunath008.jpg
  • A head of Buddha is lodged between the roots of a sacred tree at Wat Mahathat.
    Thailand-Ayuthaya001.jpg
  • Rural tribes make their annual pilgrimage to the Punakha Festival,where buddhist rituals and dancing are held inside the magnificent Dzong, or monastery.
    Bhutan-HiddenKingdom052.jpg
  • Novice monks play dodging the waves on a beach near Weligama in southern Sri Lanka.
    SriLanka032.jpg
  • His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama leads a prayer meeting at Sherboling Monastery, the day after Tibet Uprising Day.
    HornerDharamshala-1220.jpg
  • Two monks cleaning the temple adornments at a remote monastery.
    Horner_Kashmir013.jpg
  • Horner_Kashmir070.jpg
  • A pilgrim praying using his wheel in a small street outside the Royal Palace in Leh.
    Horner_Kashmir023.jpg
  • Dharma trumpets are blown during festivities. Monks and pilgrims mix to celebrate the Lamayuru Festival 5-6 June, 2013, Lamayuru Monastery. Lamayuru Gompa (monastery) is built above the ruins of the old one, along the Srinagar-Leh highway.
    Horner_Kashmir067.jpg
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  • A chinese girl is dwarfed by the buddha statues carved into the walls of the Longmen Grottoes.<br />
<br />
The Longmen Caves are one of the finest examples of Chinese Buddhist art. Tens of thousands of statues of Buddha and his disciples,located 12 kilometres south of Luòyáng in Hénán province, are housed in caves.Sadly the vast majority of them have been ruined by thieves taking the heads off to sell.The images, many once painted, were carved into caves excavated from the limestone cliffs of the Xiangshan and Longmenshan mountains, running east and west. The Yi River flows northward between them.
    China_Longmen 228.tiff
  • Devout pilgrims prostrate themselves thousands of times in their arduous quest for enlightenment.<br />
<br />
Each day during Losar (Tibetan New Year),thousands of pilgrims walk the kora around Labrang Monastery, the largest in Amdo Province, and indeed China.<br />
<br />
Established in 1709, Labrang housed over 4000 monks at its peak, but now only has around 1500 monks.
    LabrangMonastery_Gansu 13-Edit.tif
  • Devout pilgrims prostrate themselves thousands of times in their arduous quest for enlightenment.<br />
<br />
Each day during Losar (Tibetan New Year),thousands of pilgrims walk the kora around Labrang Monastery, the largest in Amdo Province, and indeed China.<br />
<br />
Established in 1709, Labrang housed over 4000 monks at its peak, but now only has around 1500 monks.
    LabrangMonastery_Gansu 179.tif
  • BHUJH00073.jpg
  • Ruwanwelisaya Dagoba is one of the oldest stupas in Sri Lanka. Ruwanwelisaya is considered an icon of architectural glory in ancient Sri Lanka. Also known as the Great Stupa, Ruwanwelisaya was built by the victorious King Dutugemunu in 140 BC. It was his ambitious project and this stupa bears witness for its unparalleled service to revive Buddhism in the country. The sacred, ancient city of Anuradhapura.
    SriLanka006.jpg
  • Diskit Monastery, in the remote Nubra Valley.
    Horner_Kashmir026.jpg
  • Monks and pilgrims mix to celebrate the Lamayuru Festival 5-6 June, 2013, Lamayuru Monastery. Lamayuru Gompa (monastery) is built above the ruins of the old one, along the Srinagar-Leh highway.
    Ladakh 5226.jpg
  • A young novice Theravada Buddhist monk peers from behind a door to the monks quarter of a small rural monastery in Xishuangbanna.
    China-Xishuangbanna001.jpg
  • Labrang Monastery during Tibetan New Year celebrations, Gansu Province, China
    LabrangMonastery_Gansu 99.jpg
  • A buddhist monk from Myanmar makes a pilgrimage to the Mahabodhi Temple, home of the Banyan Tree under which the Lord Budha received enlightenment,at Bodh Gaya.
    India_BodhGaya 9980.jpg
  • Stone-carved panels depict the life and times of the Lord Buddha on the magnificent Borobodur,a 9th-century Mahayana Buddhist Temple. Waisak Day (Buddha's birthday) draws pilgrim monks from all over Asia.
    Indonesia021.jpg
  • The headquarters of Fo Guang Shan, located in Kaohsiung, is the largest Buddhist monastery in Taiwan.Fo Guang Shan - ???; ("Buddha's Light Mountain") is a Chinese Mahayana Buddhist monastic order with huge international reach.
    Foguangshan 9940.jpg
  • Lungshan Temple is the most important buddhist temple in Taipei and attracts thousands of pilgrims every day.
    Lungshan 10088.jpg
  • Haeinsa is a head temple of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism in the Gaya Mountains,South Gyeongsang Province.<br />
<br />
Haeinsa is also home of the Tripitaka Koreana, the whole of the Buddhist Scriptures carved onto 81,350 wooden printing blocks, which it has housed since 1398.<br />
<br />
Haeinsa is one of the Three Jewel Temples of Korea. It represents Dharma or the Buddha’s teachings.
    Haeinsa 9466.jpg
  • The pathway leading to Tongdosa buddhist temple complex.
    Busan_Tongdosa 8801.jpg
  • The ruins of Wat Mahathat, or  'temple of the great relic', built from laterite and surrounded by a moat.
    Thailand_Sukhothai011.jpg
  • The ruins of Wat Mahathat, or  'temple of the great relic', built from laterite and surrounded by a moat.
    Thailand_Sukhothai007.jpg
  • The monks of Shaolin Temple (literally means "temple in the woods of Shaoshi Mountain") are trained in the martial art of Kung Fu.<br />
<br />
Myth and reality blur with Shaolin and its kung fu. Some  consider Bodhidharma as the founder of Shaolin kung fu but references to warrior monks existed before this period.<br />
<br />
Bodhidharma was the founder of Dhyana (Chan) Buddhism and this coincided with the start of the spiritual martial art of Shaolin kung fu.
    China018.jpg
  • Pilgrims line up for blessings at the Temple of the Tooth, Sri Lanka's holiest Buddhist site.
    SriLanka054.jpg
  • Zen perfection at Ryōan-ji Zen Temple Garden.
    Japan_Tokyo 2855.jpg
  • The Great Buddha of Kamakura (Daibutsu in Japanese) is a monumental outdoor bronze statue of Amida Buddha in the city of Kamakura.
    Japan-Kamakura006.jpg
  • Makha Bucha Day, Dhammakaya Temple, Bangkok.
    Makha_Bucha 2669.jpg
  • Tibetan pilgrims at the sacred Jokhang Temple ("House of the Lord") in Lhasa,the holiest site in Tibetan Buddhism. It draws thousands of prostrating Tibetan pilgrims, as well as curious foreign tourists every year. <br />
<br />
The Jokhang Temple was founded in 647 by King Songtsen Gampo (r.617-49), the first ruler of a unified Tibet, and his two foreign wives who are credited with bringing Buddhism to Tibet. The king's first wife, Princess Bhrikuti,the sister of the Nepalese king, while his second wife, Princess Wencheng was the niece or daughter of the Chinese emperor.
    Tibet-Lhasa007.jpg
  • A prayer ceremony is held in the Jokhang Temple ("House of the Lord") in Lhasa is the holiest site in Tibetan Buddhism. It draws thousands of prostrating Tibetan pilgrims, as well as curious foreign tourists every year. <br />
<br />
The Jokhang Temple was founded in 647 by King Songtsen Gampo (r.617-49), the first ruler of a unified Tibet, and his two foreign wives who are credited with bringing Buddhism to Tibet. The king's first wife, Princess Bhrikuti,the sister of the Nepalese king, while his second wife, Princess Wencheng was the niece or daughter of the Chinese emperor.
    _HOR2564.jpg
  • The iconic One Pillar Pagoda is just 3 sq metres and rests upon a single pillar in a lake. Here a vietnamese girl peers out from the accompanying temple and shrine.
    Horner_Vietnam095.jpg
  • Pilgrims circumambulate the Potala Palace, spinning  prayer wheels as they go.The more devout will prostrate themselves en route.
    _HNR3587.jpg
  • Monks congregate in one of the many surrounding temples of Shwedagon.<br />
<br />
Shwedagon Zedi Daw The, as it is known locally,or The Crown of Burma less formally, is rumoured to be the oldest pagoda in the world dating to 2,600 years old. Standing 99m tall and crowning a hilltop, it can be seen from all over Yangon, by day and night.<br />
<br />
The main gold-plated dome is topped by a stupa containing over 7,000 diamonds, rubies, topaz' and sapphires,all offset by a massive emerald positioned to reflect the setting sun.<br />
<br />
As Myanmar's most revered shrine it has always been customary for families and followers of the Buddha to make the pilgrimage to Shwedagon in the same way that Muslims feel compelled to visit the Kaaba at Mecca, at least once in their lifetime.
    Burma-Yangon004.jpg
  • The town of Amarapura to the south of Mandalay is where the majority of Buddha statues are made in Myanmar (Burma), whether cast in bronze or sculpted from white marble quarried locally.
    Buddha-Genesis043.jpg
  • Drummers signal the commencement of a prayer session behind the closed doors of the inner chamber of the Temple of the Tooth, Royal Palace of Kandy.
    Horner_SriLanka038.jpg
  • Sri Lankan pilgrims circumambulate the ornamented stupa of Sarnath in prayers during the Tibetan New Year, or Losar, Varanasi.
    India_Varanasi 7613.jpg
  • Rural tribes make their annual pilgrimage to the Punakha Festival,where buddhist rituals and dancing are held inside the magnificent Dzong, or monastery.
    Bhutan-HiddenKingdom033.jpg
  • Buddhist nuns walk around central Rangoon early in the morning in search of alms.
    Burma-Yangon003.jpg
  • Pilgrims light incense and pray around the various mini-stupas surrounding Schwedagon Paya.<br />
<br />
Shwedagon Zedi Daw The, as it is known locally,or The Crown of Burma less formally, is rumoured to be the oldest pagoda in the world dating to 2,600 years old. Standing 99m tall and crowning a hilltop, it can be seen from all over Yangon, by day and night.<br />
<br />
The main gold-plated dome is topped by a stupa containing over 7,000 diamonds, rubies, topaz' and sapphires,all offset by a massive emerald positioned to reflect the setting sun.<br />
<br />
As Myanmar's most revered shrine it has always been customary for families and followers of the Buddha to make the pilgrimage to Shwedagon in the same way that Muslims feel compelled to visit the Kaaba at Mecca, at least once in their life.
    Burma-Yangon005.jpg
  • Monks make a pilgrimage to Shwesandaw Pagoda,built in A.D. 1057 by King Anawrahta.
    Horner543.jpg
  • Old cedar trees tower shade this sacred area of Okunoin where many pilgrims are buried within close proximity to the mausoleum of Kobo Daishi, founder of Shingon Buddhism.
    Japan-Koyasan012.jpg
  • A schoolboy visits the famous Buddha at Kamakura,in Kanagawa Prefecture.
    Japan-Kamakura005.jpg
  • A pilgrim spins a giant prayer wheel at the entrance to Langmusi's kora and temple.
    LabrangMonastery_Gansu 103.jpg
  • A novice monk during prayer studies at Semtokha Monastery near Thimphu.
    Portraits-Collection061.jpg
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