Venturing to museums for awe and inspiration. Pictured is the Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Cover of the prayer and scripture booklet from the Kalachakra teaching given by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Washington, DC 2011

Monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery performing a ritual to promote healing and world peace

Monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery creating a sand mandala

Monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery chanting before the swept up sand from a dismantled mandala is disbursed into the bay

Prayer wheels encircling an outdoor Buddhist shrine on the main street in Dharamsala, Himachel Pradesh, India

A rickshaw driver and I in front of Safdarjang's Tomb, New Delhi, India

View of the Taj Mahal through the entry portico, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

Frontal view of the Taj Mahal from the entry gate, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

View of the main Bazaar in Paharganj, New Delhi, India

View of the Laxmi Narayan Temple, New Delhi, India

Skyward view of Sacre-Coeur Basilica, Montmartre, Paris, France

Snapshot of sunlit Greek busts inside the Musee du Louvre, Paris, France

Sunset view of Paris atop the Tour Eiffel, Paris, France

View of the Avon River in Bath, Somerset, United Kingdom

View of Piccadilly Circus, London, United Kingdom