Another draw is the fact that Sümela is on UNESCO’s tentative list for designation as a world heritage site. Now a state ...

The Rongbuk monastery, situated half-way up the mile ... Everest looms above, a sacred space with its own draw, its own inexorable pull on the human spirit. Photos: (1, 2) Peter Tyson; (3) Liesl ...

Sravasti Abbey, a Buddhist monastery near Newport, is hosting tyhe “Standing Up for Compassion" retreat will be held April ...

In a sixth-century Egyptian monastery’s library, high-tech imaging of parchments reveals thousands of pages of hidden text. This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic ...