1.   At Sepia, which displays pictures Izu took in India, there is an image of a familiar Tibetan monastery sitting on a mountaintop in Ladakh.

2.   Authorities may have been more interested in Meston than Lafitte because Meston is a Tibetan speaker, an American who was raised in a Tibetan monastery in Nepal.

3.   During the Cultural Revolution, thousands of Tibetan monasteries were destroyed.

4.   Instruction in arcane Buddhist meditation techniques, some once confined to remote Tibetan monasteries, is now almost as easy to find as yoga or karate training.

5.   Most were small squares of cloth, fragments used for centuries in Tibetan monasteries to cover books or sutras.

6.   Robb, on the other hand, grew up in a Tibetan monastery, where his mother taught.

7.   Chinese troops raided a remote Tibetan monastery and arrested four monks suspected of writing pro-independence leaflets, a report said Saturday.

8.   The closure of the monasteries and guesthouses affects tourists and pilgrims seeking to visit sites such as the great Buddha statue, the Thai Temple and the Tibetan monastery.

9.   The escape could prod the Chinese communist leadership to intensify an already stern four-year campaign to purge Tibetan monasteries of Dalai Lama supporters.

10.   The great Buddha statue, the Tibetan monastery housing the wheel of time, the Thai temple and the international meditation center were also closed for three days.