LaBuLeng Lamasery in XiaHe

Labuleng Lamasery is situated in the western suburb of Xiahe County, Gannan Prefecture, nearby Lanzhou City. With Mountain Phoenix behind and Mountain Dragon in front, it takes a special naturally endowed position of “Golden Fish Basin”.

The monastery was built in 1710 by Jiamuyang, the first Living Buddha, and now it is the largest cultural center of the Tibetan Buddhism in Gansu, Qinghai and Sichuan Provinces after being built and rebuilt by the Living Buddhas of ages. Occupying an area of 1,234 mu, this monastery owns 6 sermon halls, 84 Buddha hall, 30 Buddha palaces and 10,000 rooms for monks. As one of the six suzerain monasteries of the Tibetan Buddhism (Gelug School), this lamasery collects wisdom from nationalities of Tibetan, Mongol and Han, which is famous for its exquisite architecture art and religious culture. It is a monastery with the most numerous book collections with more than 60,000 volumes of Buddhism scriptures. It is the world's largest high education centre of Lamaism with six institutes. The grand religious ceremonies are respectively held on 4th-17th, january and 29th, June and 15th, July of the Lunar Year in Labuleng lamasery, among which the“Displaying and sunning the Portrait of Buddha” held on 13th january and the Debate Over Scripture Held on 8th July are grand and the most interesting.

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