The saffron arches symbolize the passage from Ukiah, a city of about 16,000 people, into the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, or CTTB, an international and public monastery with around 350 residents.

MOSCOW, March 3. /TASS/. Gunmen from Ukrainian volunteer battalions have kidnapped an Orthodox priest from a monastery near the town of Ugledar in eastern Ukraine, the Donetsk News Agency said on ...

DONETSK, May 6. /TASS/. Ukrainian forces attacked the participants of a religious Easter procession near a monastery in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) on May 5, the monastery’s press ...