It's a breathtaking sight. Among the green hills of China's Larong Gar Valley, the last thing you might expect to see is thousands of undulating red log cabins that look like stretches of the Red Sea. Despite its secluded location, it's home to Larung Gar, the largest and most influential center for the study of Buddhism. Tibetan in the world.
Sirtar, which includes the academy, is located at an altitude of 4,014 meters above sea level, and is a nursery for more than 40,000 monks and nuns, who are distributed according to age and gender in wooden cabins ranging in size from one to three rooms, and a sign is placed to separate between Male and female determined by a zigzag.
Television and smoking are prohibited inside the academy, but iPhones are allowed. Most monks have phones using iPhones 4 and above.
But the strangest thing you may see inside this population is the heavenly burial ceremony, where thousands of condor eagles wait for their food. The bodies of the dead are cut up so that the eagles then devour the corpses, and they believe that the more vultures eat the corpses, the better, they do not eat bad people.
Students at this academy come from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia, where they are taught in separate classes in Mandarin Chinese, but the larger classes are taught in Tibetan.
It is indeed one of the most amazing and exotic places you can see on earth.
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