Set against a stunning Himalayan backdrop, this high-altitude hike is one of the best ways to experience one of Asia's oldest religions and search for one of its most elusive animals. Khenpo Nyima ...

Dorje Dolma talks about her new book Yak Girl: Growing Up in the Remote Dolpo Region of Nepal! Dorje Dolma was born in the remote Dolpo region of Nepal, high in the mountains bordering Tibet. She was ...

Today, Bon Po has been overlaid by Buddhism and later Communism in Tibet, but it still thrives in parts of the plateau that today lie in Nepal, like Dolpo. The 500-year-old Thasung Tholing Bon ...

Dolpo is located on the trans-Himalayan plateau ... so that the lake, the Bon Po monastery in Pungmo and the southern part of the national park will only be for wilderness hiking.

Thasung Tsholing is a monastery of the ancient Bon religion set on the edge of Phoksundo Lake in Dolpo, in north-west Nepal. A rugged land of jagged gorges, high passes and secluded religious ...