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The Best Attractions In Sertar County

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Larung Ngarig Buddhist Academy

Sêrtar County or Serthar County is a county of Sichuan Province, China. It is one of the 18 counties under the administration of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, covering some 9340 square kilometres. Sêrtar, which means golden horse in Tibetan, lies in the southeast of the Tibetan Plateau and in the historical region of Kham. The vast majority of the population is Tibetan, followed by Han Chinese. Sêrtar comprises 17 towns and 66 villages. It is home to the Larung Gar Buddhist Institute, the largest Tibetan Buddhist institute in the world. The institute, which was founded by lama Jigme Phuntsok in 1980 and started off with just a few monks,...
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The Best Attractions In Sertar County

1. Larung Ngarig Buddhist Academy Sertar County
In 1980, Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok founded the Larung Ngarig Buddhist Academy , in the Larung Valley near the township of Larung in Sêrtar County, Garzê Prefecture, Sichuan Province. The purpose of the Institute has been to provide an ecumenical training in Tibetan Buddhism and to meet the need for renewal of meditation and scholarship all over Tibet in the wake of China’s Cultural Revolution of 1966-76.Despite its remote location, it grew from a handful of disciples gathering in Jigme Phuntsok's home to be one of the largest and most influential centers for the study of Tibetan Buddhism in the world, numbering to nearly 10,000 monks, nuns, and lay disciples by the year 2000. As of 2015, the number of residents has grown to about 40,000.
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Backpacking in China

A month of backpacking around China in 2014.

-Chengdu
-Kangding
-Luhuo
-Larung Gar
-Seda
-Lithang
-Xiangcheng
Shangri-La
-Tiger Leaping Gorge
-Lijiang
-Dali
-Guilin
-Yangshuo
-Shanghai
-Beijing
-Jiankou and Mutianyu Great Wall

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