Xiahe and the Labrang Monastery བླ་བྲང་བཀྲ་ཤིས་འཁྱིལ་

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June 5th 2013

Published: June 5th 2013

Bonjour à tous! Comme vous pourrez le constater, j’ai écrit un (trop) long email en anglais donc je vais essayer de faire plus court en français. Je suppose que vous avez bien d’autres choses à faire que de lire mes péripéties sur les routes de campagne de Chine et puis, de mon coté à Pékin le temps est super ensoleillé et j’aimerais bien en profiter au plus vite ! Je suis rentr... Read Full Entry

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visiting Labrang Monastery

walking around the temples

The monastery was founded in 1709 by the first Jamyang Zhaypa, Ngawang Tsondru. It is Tibetan Buddhism's most important monastery town outside the Tibetan Autonomous Region.

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Prayer wheels are devices inscribed with mani prayers and containing sutra scrolls attached to their axels. Each turn of a prayer wheel represents a recitation of the prayer inside and transports it to heaven. Varying in size from thimbles to oil drums, w

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with a visiting monk from Sichuan Province

Tibetan temples have flat roofs and contain ashes of the reincarnations of local lamas. In the old days they were illuminated only with yak-butter lamps. These days the halls in many temples are lit up with electric lamps as well as well as yak-butter lamps.