Larung Gar

The houses of the town on the hillside

Larung Gar (Tibetan: བླ་རུང་སྒར་, Wylie: bla rung sgar ) or the Larung Valley is a town in Sêrtar County of Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in Sichuan, China.[1] The population of over 40,000 comprises primarily monks and nuns making it possibly the largest religious institute in the world, and is based around the Serthar Institute founded by Jigme Phuntsok.[1]

Ngarig Buddhist Institute

The institute seen from the North

The Larung Five Sciences Buddhist Academy is a Buddhist academy located in the Larung Gar.

It was founded in 1980 in the uninhabited valley by Jigme Phuntsok, a lama of the Nyingma tradition. The academy has grown substantially since: as of 2015, it is home to over 40,000 monks and nuns.[2] Nuns and monks are segregated by age and sex. Housing for monks and nuns are divided by a winding road that divides the city.[2] TVs are prohibited.

Horxi Samyang Lonpê Buddhist Institute

The Larung Horxi Samyang Lonpê Buddhist Institute (Tibetan: བླ་རུང་ཧོར་ཤིལ་འཇམ་དབྱངས་བློ་འཕེལ་ནང་བསྟན་སློབ་གླིང་།, ZYPY: Larung Horxi Jamyang Lonpê nangdän lobling , Chinese: 喇榮霍西文殊增慧佛學院; pinyin: Larong Huoxi wenshu zenghui foxueyuan) is a Buddhist institute 20 kilometers from the Ngarig Buddhist Institute at Larung, 40 kilometers from the central town of Sêrtar County. It's not located in Larung Valley but has been renamed to its current name by Cüchim Lozhö (ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་བློ་གྲོས།), Känbo of the Ngarig Buddhist Institute.

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Little boxes on the hillside... home to 40,000 Buddhist monks: The stunning makeshift town that has sprung up around a Tibetan monastery" by Amanda Williams. The Daily Mail Online. 27 June 2013
  2. 1 2 Daily Mail: "The largest Buddhist settlement in the world: Inside the village where 40,000 monks and nuns are segregated and televisions are banned... but iPhones are allowed" By Becky Pemberton 19 April 2015

Photographs of Larung Gar: https://picasaweb.google.com/109958612223411682295/LarungGarBuddhistInstitute?authuser=0&feat=directlink

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Coordinates: 32°08′08″N 100°27′23″E / 32.1356°N 100.4565°E / 32.1356; 100.4565

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