Saturday, 18. June 2016

China issues demolition order on world’s largest religious town in Tibet


Chinese authorities have announced the destruction of thousands of monastic dwellings and expulsion of monks, nuns and lay practitioners at Serthar Larung Gar Buddhist Institute, the famed Tibetan Buddhist religious encampment located in Serthar (Ch: Seda) County in Kardze (Ch: Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, in eastern Tibet.

Largun Gar, Setar, China / Tibet - June 2016 simon.yorkston

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