The Larung Gar Buddhist Academy is home to around 4,000 monks and nuns. Credit: Shivaji Das Subscribe for ads-free reading. We made a late start for Larung Gar, the world’s largest monastery and ...

Larung Gar is thus one of Tibetan Buddhism’s most vital communities, actively balancing cultural preservation and innovation. This event is co-sponsored by the UVA Tibet Center and Tibet Himalaya ...

Larung Gar, a picturesque settlement of red log-cabin dwellings set amid alpine hills in Sichuan province, can have no more than 5,000 people, authorities say. News. Home Page ; ...

(New York, January 24, 2018) – The Chinese authorities have imposed new administrative controls on the Tibetan Buddhist monastic center of Larung Gar that infringe upon freedom of religion ...

The Larung Gar Buddhist Academy in China's south-west is home to almost 10,000 nuns and monks; Photographs of the breathtaking town reveal the cramped living conditions of its religious inhabitants; ...

Chinese authorities are placing tighter administrative controls over Larung Gar, a Buddhist study center, according to a report released by Human Rights Watch (HRW). About 200 Communist Party ...

Dharamsala (Himachal Pradesh) [India], Oct. 11 (ANI): Former Tibetan prime minister-in-exile Samdhong Rinpoche has termed demolition of Larung Gar Monastery and eviction of thousands of monks and ...

The plan reportedly calls for downsizing Larung Gar’s population by 50 percent, and evicting at least half of its more than 10,000 residents, according to the Associated Press. “China has ...

Voices from Larung Gar: Shaping Tibetan Buddhism for the Twenty-First Century Edited by Holly Gayley. Snow Lion, $19.95 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-61180-894-0 ...