Shoes up

End of the afternoon ceremony: monks are taking their shoes on in front of a temple in Larung Gar Buddhist Institute

Monk in front of his hut

Larung Gar

A monk is walking back to his hut from the mountain

Laundry

Monks drying their laundry at Larung Gar Buddhist Academy. Laundry above the valley. At 4000m height the climate is very dry.

Larung Gar at night

Nuns

Nuns are taking off to their daily classes after the morning prayer in Larung Gar Buddhist Institute

Morning in Larung Gar. The smoke is coming from the kitchens below, preparing breakfast.

Center of Larung Gar

Larung Gar Buddhist Academy, also known as Serthar Buddhist Institute, sits in the Larung Valley at an elevation of 4,000 meters.
With about 20 thousand monks and nuns this is the largest Buddhist settlement on the world.

Nun carrying dried yak manure, used for heating.

Larung Gar

Utmost Bliss Dharma Assembly

Pilgrims and monks at the Utmost Bliss Dharma Assembly in Larung Gar Buddhist Institute. Two hundred thousand Tibetans gather here (many of them by foot) from three provinces for this eight-days long religious festival. Thousands gather on the hills in the morning to participate in ceremonies given by high lamas.