larung gar - the largest tibetan buddhist school in the world

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High in a treeless valley in China's remote Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture lies the the largest Tibetan Buddhist

school in the world. Founded in 1980, the Seda Larung Wuming Tibetan Buddhist Institute consists of a few main buildings

and a tens of thousands of small dormitories built on the surrounding hillsides. At any given time, the Institute houses up

to 40,000 monks and nuns who come from different schools of Tibetan Buddhism: Nyingma, Gelug, Sakya and Kagyu.

Students usually take six years to complete the formal training. Higher levels of training can take 13 years.

色達喇榮五明佛學院是現今世界上最大的藏傳佛學院，位處四川省甘孜藏族自治州，距離色達縣城約二十多公里

的喇榮山谷，海拔3700公尺。

佛學院是在1980年由藏傳佛教寧瑪派高僧——晉美彭措法王所創辦，開始的時候只有三十多人，後來從各地前去

學習的僧眾不斷增加。到了今天，在這裡學習的僧眾已有4萬多人，其中包括出家人、在家人、喇嘛、覺姆（藏傳

佛教對女性出家人的稱呼）等，每遇有佛事法會活動，人數還會以倍數增加，把佛學院擠得水洩不通。

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05/23/2015 王文堯 Kaohsiung Taiwan R.O.C All photos were taken from Avax News,ABC News,…Internet,etc.

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