Labrang Monastery, the second country. It is a voice change in the Tibetan word "Lazhang", which means the residence of Master Living Buddha. It is the political and educational center in Gannan region.
Labrang Monastery is located in Xiahe County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province. The full name of Tibetan is: "Gadan Xiazhu Daerji Zhaxi Yisu Qigulang", which means to talk about the cultivation of Jixiang Youxuan Temple. It is referred to as Tashiqi Temple for short, and is generally called Labrang Temple. It is one of the six major temples of Tibetan Buddhism Gelug School and is known as the "World Tibetan School Institution" by the world. During its heyday, there were more than 4,000 monks and they opened tourism to the public in 1980. (Excerpt from Baidu )
The temple owner is the sixth Sega wood-like Hutuktu, and the other leaders include the eight Khenpos and the four Skichi. Labrang Monastery is known to have 108 temples in history.
Labrang Monastery retains the best Tibetan Buddhist teaching system in the country.
The temple faces north and south, covers a total area of 866,000 square meters, and has more than 90 main halls, including six major colleges, 16 Buddhist temples, 18 Angun (the palace of the Great Living Buddha), monks' houses and lecture halls, Dharma gardens, scripture printing courtyards, pagodas, etc., forming a group of magnificent buildings with the characteristics of Tibetan , with no less than 10,000 houses. (Excerpt from Baidu)
The oldest and only existing Buddhist temple in the entire temple was built during the period of the First Sega wood-like living Buddha. It is the Buddhist temple of Xiasubu Academy next to the Great Sutra Hall.
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Labrang Monastery's butter flower exhibition is no less than that of Ta'er Monastery. But Labrang Monastery is more friendly and tourists can take photos as a souvenir.
Every frame is a work of art!
welcome to visit, wish you good health always!
Note: Picture shooting time August 14, 2020
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1709 AD (the 49th year of the Kangxi reign of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty) The first Sega Wooden Symbol Association Bedoji (everything knows wonderful sounds and laughs at the Vajra) Master at the invitation of the Mongolian Heshuote tribe in Qinghai, Prince of the South of the Yellow River Chahan Danjin, returned from Tibet to build a temple and spread the Dharma. The master brought his disciples to Zhaxi Beach in the summer of that year. He saw the beautiful mountains and rivers and the auspicious clouds here, which was an ideal place for building a temple. The construction of Labrang Monastery here began. After the continuous expansion and improvement of Master Dai Jiamuying and the major living Buddhas, it has developed into a magnificent complex with an area of 866,000 square meters, a building area of more than 4.4 million square meters, more than 90 main halls, more than 10,000 monks' houses and six major Zacang (college), various types of Buddhist temples, many living Buddha palaces, and magnificent buildings, Dharma gardens, scripture palaces, pagodas, and Jiamuying Master Villa. During its heyday, there were more than 3,600 monks. There are 139 temples to which it belongs, and the scope of the church authority is located in Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, Kangxi, Mongolia, Northeast China and Xinjiang. It not only became a sacred religious Zen forest for Buddhism, but also a comprehensive institution for disseminating knowledge, and is also a cultural and artistic center of the Tibetan people in the entire Ando region. Win the title of Second Tibet. [8]
To the eve of liberation, there were 6 sutra halls and 48 Buddhist temples in Labrang Monastery.Among them, there are 1 seven-story building, 1 six-story building, 4 four-story building, 8 three-story building, 9 two-story building, 4 gold-distilled copper tile roof, 2 green glazed tile roof, 31 Tibetan-style buildings of Master Jiamuying and various major Angun, 30 courtyards of each Angun Living Buddha's residence, 6 Jiwa Courtyard, 6 large kitchens, 1 scripture courtyard, 2 lecture courtyards, 2 Jiamuying villas, more than 500 prayer wheel rooms, more than 500 ordinary monks' houses, several towers and archways, and other buildings, covering a total area of more than 1,000 acres. The entire building is majestic, lined up one after another, and arranged in an orderly manner, making it the number one in Ando area. These buildings can be divided into two categories: stone and wood structure and civil structure. The outside is stone and the inside is wood. There is a saying that "there is no wood outside and no stone inside." The architectural forms include Tibetan style, Han palace style and Tibetan and Han mixed style. [5] After liberation of
, due to interference from the extreme left line, Labrang Monastery suffered great damage. The seven-story building in the Pozhangmara Buddha Hall was demolished and built in the "Four Purposes" and the largest Buddha statue (24 meters high) in the hall was smashed and refined into steel in 1958. The "Cultural Revolution" in the past ten years was even more unspeakable, and Buddhist temples became food factories and slaughterhouses. The temple gate was closed and the monks scattered. The temple building only retains a corner of the northwest of the original temple, accounting for about one-quarter of the original temple’s area. Most of the temple sites are occupied by government agencies. [8]
Although Labrang Monastery has experienced many vicissitudes, since The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, under the care of the Chinese government, it has implemented the party's ethnic and religious policies. Since the reopening of Labrang Monastery in 1980, the state has allocated more than one million yuan to repair the original sutra halls and Buddhist temples. [8]
As of January 26, 2020, the "World Tibetan Academy" Labrang Monastery Cultural Relics Protection Project has completed 90% of the original planned project, of which 14 Buddhist temples have completed the repair of the cultural relics, and 7 Buddhist temples have completed the restoration of murals, with a restoration area of more than 6,000 square meters.
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