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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Xining Ta'er Monastery
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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