by Liang Zhun  How the Hui community of Pi county, nearby Chengdu, celebrates the Feast of the Birth of the Prophet. November 5, 2006. (Article in Chinese with a choice of photographs). 回族圣纪节  圣纪节，是伊斯兰教三大节日之一，是纪念伊斯兰教的创始人穆罕默德的诞辰和逝世的纪念日。  ...

 by Marie Delaplanche As soon as I knew I would be travelling to Sabbah (the Malaysian part of Borneo), I knew I wanted to see orangutans. As a strong supporter of animal rights, it was impossible for ...

A tale by Filippo Brambilla No more then 20 years ago the Jonang School was studied and described as - a now defunct Tibetan Buddhist school. The lineage was born at the end of the 13th century, when ...

A tale by Aurélie Kernaléguen  Once upon a time… The early history of Nepal, “The Kingdom of Kings” is told in many legends, which often differ according to the people telling the story. This magical ...

by Benoit Vermander    Nagasaki rhymes with tragedy, horror and destruction. It is one of the two cities in the world that have known what a nuclear holocaust is about. As one can expect, the recollection ...

by Aurélie Kernaléguen  Teej Women Festival in Nepal is celebrated every year at the end of August or in early September. For three days, Hindu married, unmarried women or widows gather together to pray ...

by Liang Zhun This is the story of a couple in Sichuan who reacts to adversity with courage, sense of humor and love… (Article in Chinese with a choice of 13 photographs) 在四川省阆中县下新街86号，住着一对残疾夫妻，提起这对残疾夫妻，周围邻居除了赞叹，更多的是佩服。
丈夫向仲尹，60年出生，精明能干；妻子杨桂芳，70年出生，温柔贤惠。夫妻俩夫唱妇随，配合默契，恩爱有加。以下是向仲尹的自诉。 ...

by Li Jinyuan    On August 13, 2000, Fr. Jacques Duraud and I took the train departing from Rome. It took about more than two hours to Macerata — the hometown of Matteo Ricci — the land that I had dreamed ...

by Claire Shen Lines do not necessarily create volumes – or do they? Even in a two dimensions space it seems that lines, as they move in sometimes predictable, sometimes disconcerting directions, are ...

par Benoît Vermander  Le Tibet oriental, ou Kham, recouvre une réalité géographique, politique et culturelle éclatée. Composé d’un nombre variable de petits « royaumes » indépendants, traversé du nord ...

by Liang Zhun  The district of “Shangri La” (formerly called Zhongdian, before a name more prone to attract tourism was adopted in 2001…) is located on the north of Yunnan province, on the southern ...

by Liang Zhun  The traveler who wishes to explore Eastern Tibet (or Kham) might first take a bus in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province. On the road that leads from Kangding to the border of the Tibet ...

by Liang Zhun  Muli is a tiny multi-ethnic county at the southwest corner of Sichuan province, nearby Yunnan province. On its west, lies the Ganze Tibetan autonomous prefecture. Muli itself is officially ...

by Liang Zhun  In Chinese, "Opening the eye (of a Buddha)" refers to the consecration of a statue in a temple. The pictures I have selected here all correspond to a moment of special awakening. Sometimes ...

by Liang Zhun  Eastern Tibet, or Kham, refers to a complex geographic, political and cultural reality.  Historically, it is composed of a variable number of small chiefdoms.  Geographically, its territory ...

by Bendu (Benoit Vermander)  Your face is made of sand and wind, Obeying the watery heart That beats in your ear, (...) 15 paintings | 1 poem | Author's biography

par Benoît Vermander  Le comté de Shangri-la, anciennement appelé  Zhongdian, est situé sur la pointe nord du Yunnan. Pour des raisons touristiques, le nom mythique fut substitué à l’ancien en 2001. La ...

by Bendu (Benoit Vermander)   Jesus delivers the Beatitudes from the Mount (Mt 5), and he preaches the Parables of the Kingdom from the lake (Mt 13.) Confucius used to say: “The wise find pleasure in ...

by Benoit Vermander    Among all the colors that flourish and shine in Taiwan, I particularly like the variety of combinations that Red and Green offer to the eye.   20 pictures | article : 246 words ...

by Benoit Vermander et Nicolas Priniotakis  Whatever the destructions that have disfigured Beijing, there is still space for walking, dreaming and making encounters… There is still space within Beijing ...