The Scottish government is being asked to rule on the scheme near the Samye Ling Tibetan Centre at Eskdalemuir. Dumfries and Galloway Council decided it constituted a major development rather than ...

Arriving in a small village in Dumfries and Galloway with a vision to set up a Buddhist monastery to preserve their culture, Samye Ling was built. One of the co-founders, Akong Rinpoche ...

Chöje Akong Rinpoche, who died after a violent attack aged 73, was co-founder of the biggest and first Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Europe, the Samye Ling centre at Eskdalemuir in Dumfries and ...