Ganden Sumtseling Monastery in Shangri-La was built in 1679 at the direction of the Fifth Dalai Lama. James Whitlow Delano To conjure the lost world of imperial China, you might resort to the ...

Perched at 3,800 meters above sea level on Wangbori Mountain, Ganden Monastery is the first and most significant religious community of the Gelug Sect in Tibetan Buddhism. Built in 1409 by Je ...

Older people in Yunnan can still remember the days when merchants with mules plied the Tea Horse Road: the last few caravans ...