12th century Monastery Cloisters brought from Spain to the US by William Randolph Hearst in 1924. Oldest building in western hemisphere, tourist site...
Sakya Monastery(萨迦寺) is a Buddhist monastery situated 25 km southeast of a bridge which is about 127 km west of Shigatse on the road to Tingri in Tibet.
The first phase of the current structure dates to the 11th century, when Maria Doukaina, the mother-in-law of Alexios I, restored the monastery around 1077-1081.
Tabo Monastery – sometimes referred to as the Ajanta of the Himalayas – is the oldest earthen Buddhist monastery in the Himalayan region to have survived...