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 escaped largely untouched when the party cracked down on monasteries across Tibet in the late 1980s and the 1990s, jailing and defrocking thousands of monks who refused to denounce the ...

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 ; ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 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 ...

Chinese demolition crews, accompanied by police and government officials, have begun tearing down parts of what is considered the largest Buddhist study institute in the world. The demolition at ...

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 ...