Xining Ta'er Monastery Pictures

Ta'er Monastery

Ta'er Monastery (Kumbum Monastery) is one of the six biggest monasteries of the Yellow Hat Sect (Gelugpa Sect) of Tibetan Buddhism. In memory of the founder of the Yellow Hat Sect, Tsong Khapa (1357-1419), an 11-meter-high pagoda was built at his birthplace, today's Huangzhong County about 30 kilometers southwest of Xining, Qinhai Province in 1577. Later it was enlarged into a monastery continually, a perfect complex of both the Tibet style architecture and the Han style buildings.

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Magnificent Ta'er Monastery	Debating Lamas	Smiling Lama
Devout pilgrim	Praying lama	Solemn statue of Sakyamuni
Two pilgrims	Sakyamuni's statue	A line of prayer wheels
Modern and traditional	Old-time architecture	Lama's modern life

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Last updated: June 16, 2008

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