Convento de los Carmelitas Descalzos (Convent of the Discalced Carmelites), Segovia, Castile and Leon, Spain

Monastery of Santa María del Parral, Segovia, Castile and Leon, Spain

Roman cloister of Sant Pere de Galligants Monastery housing the Archaeological Museum of Catalonia, Girona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe

One of Eighteen Arhats of Mahayana Buddhism await return of Buddha as Maitreya, Long Quang Pagoda, An Giang Province, Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Indus River with the Tibetan Buddhist Stakna Monastery in the background, near Leh, Ladakh region, state of Jammu and Kashmir, India, Asia

Wall painting at Tibetan Buddhist Thikse Monastery, near Leh, Ladakh region, state of Jammu and Kashmir, India, Asia

Monks at the Tibetan Buddhist Hemis Monastery, Ladakh region, state of Jammu and Kashmir, India, Asia

Buddhist monk performing daily duties in Chiangmai, Thailand

Buddhist monk performing daily duties in Chiangmai, Thailand

Buddhist monks at Wat Rong Khun, the famous White Temple, Chiang Rai, Thailand

Corridor and arches at Monasterio y Museo de la Recoleta, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Arequipa, Arequipa Province, Arequipa Region, Peru, South America

Thien Truc Buddhist pagoda, Life of the Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama), preaching first sermon to monks in Deer Park in Varanasi, Bac Lieu, Vietnam

Ruins in front of Sisevo Monastery, Macedonia, Europe

Bas-relief of life of Buddha, Borobudur, 9th-century Mahayana Buddhist temple, UNESCO, Java, Indonesia

Cloister of the church of San Juan de los Reyes, Toledo, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Castile-La Mancha, Spain, Europe

Cloister of the Monastery of San Juan de los Reyes, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Upper cloister, Monastery of San Juan de los Reyes, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Polychrome arabesque, cloister, Monastery of San Juan de los Reyes, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Door of Veronica, cloister of the Monastery of San Juan de los Reyes, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain