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Labrang Monastery (Tibetan: བླ་བྲང་བཀྲ་ཤིས་འཁྱིལ་, Wylie: bla-brang bkra-shis-'khyil) is one of the six great monasteries of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. Its formal name is Genden Shédrup Dargyé Trashi Gyésu khyilwé Ling (Tibetan: དགེ་ལྡན་བཤད་སྒྲུབ་དར་རྒྱས་བཀྲ་ཤིས་གྱས་སུ་འཁྱིལ་བའི་གླིང༌།, Wylie: dge ldan bshad sgrub dar rgyas bkra shis gyas su 'khyil ba'i gling).
Labrang is located in Xiahe County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu, in the traditional Tibetan area of Amdo. Labrang Monastery is home to the largest number of monks outside the Tibet Autonomous Region. Xiahe is about four hours by car from the provincial capital Lanzhou.
In the early part of the 20th century, Labrang was by far the largest and most influential monastery in Amdo. It is located on the Daxia River, a tributary of the Yellow River.
The monastery was founded in 1709 by the first Jamyang Zhépa, Ngawang Tsöndrü.It is Tibetan Buddhism's most important monastery town outside the Tibetan Autonomous Region.
Labrang Monastery is situated at the strategic intersection of two major Asian cultures—Tibetan and Mongolian — and was one of the largest Buddhist monastic universities. In the early 20th century, it housed several thousand monks. Labrang was also a gathering point for numerous annual religious festivals and was the seat of a Tibetan power base that strove to maintain regional autonomy through the shifting alliances and bloody conflicts that took place between 1700 and 1950.[5]
In April 1985 the Assembly Hall burned down. It was replaced and the new building was consecrated in 1990
The monastery complex dominates the western part of the village. The white walls and gilded roofs feature a blend of Tibetan and Indian Vihara architectural styles. The monastery contains 18 halls, six institutes of learning, a gilded stupa, a sutra debate area, and houses nearly 60,000 sutras.
At its height the monastery housed 4,000 monks. Like so many religious institutions, it suffered during the Cultural Revolution; and the monks were sent to their villages to work. After it was reopened in 1980, many of the monks returned; but the government restricted enrolment to around 1,500.[7]
It has a Buddhist museum with a large collection of Buddha statues, sutras and murals. In addition, a large amount of Tibetan language books, including books on history is available for purchase, together with medicines, calendars, music and art objects.
There used to be a great gold-painted statue of the Buddha, more than 50 feet high, which was surrounded by rows of surrounding Buddhas in niches.[8]
The monastery today is an important place for Buddhist ceremonies and activities. From January 4 to 17 and June 26, to July 15, (these dates may change according to the lunar calendar), the great Buddhist ceremony will be held with Buddha-unfolding, sutra enchanting, praying, sutra debates, etc.
Labrang Monastery (Tibetan: བླ་བྲང་བཀྲ་ཤིས་འཁྱིལ་, Wylie: bla-brang bkra-shis-'khyil) is one of the six great monasteries of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. Its formal name is Genden Shédrup Dargyé Trashi Gyésu khyilwé Ling (Tibetan: དགེ་ལྡན་བཤད་སྒྲུབ་དར་རྒྱས་བཀྲ་ཤིས་གྱས་སུ་འཁྱིལ་བའི་གླིང༌།, Wylie: dge ldan bshad sgrub dar rgyas bkra shis gyas su 'khyil ba'i gling).
Labrang is located in Xiahe County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu, in the traditional Tibetan area of Amdo. Labrang Monastery is home to the largest number of monks outside the Tibet Autonomous Region. Xiahe is about four hours by car from the provincial capital Lanzhou.
In the early part of the 20th century, Labrang was by far the largest and most influential monastery in Amdo. It is located on the Daxia River, a tributary of the Yellow River.
The monastery was founded in 1709 by the first Jamyang Zhépa, Ngawang Tsöndrü.It is Tibetan Buddhism's most important monastery town outside the Tibetan Autonomous Region.
Labrang Monastery is situated at the strategic intersection of two major Asian cultures—Tibetan and Mongolian — and was one of the largest Buddhist monastic universities. In the early 20th century, it housed several thousand monks. Labrang was also a gathering point for numerous annual religious festivals and was the seat of a Tibetan power base that strove to maintain regional autonomy through the shifting alliances and bloody conflicts that took place between 1700 and 1950.[5]
In April 1985 the Assembly Hall burned down. It was replaced and the new building was consecrated in 1990
The monastery complex dominates the western part of the village. The white walls and gilded roofs feature a blend of Tibetan and Indian Vihara architectural styles. The monastery contains 18 halls, six institutes of learning, a gilded stupa, a sutra debate area, and houses nearly 60,000 sutras.
At its height the monastery housed 4,000 monks. Like so many religious institutions, it suffered during the Cultural Revolution; and the monks were sent to their villages to work. After it was reopened in 1980, many of the monks returned; but the government restricted enrolment to around 1,500.[7]
It has a Buddhist museum with a large collection of Buddha statues, sutras and murals. In addition, a large amount of Tibetan language books, including books on history is available for purchase, together with medicines, calendars, music and art objects.
There used to be a great gold-painted statue of the Buddha, more than 50 feet high, which was surrounded by rows of surrounding Buddhas in niches.[8]
The monastery today is an important place for Buddhist ceremonies and activities. From January 4 to 17 and June 26, to July 15, (these dates may change according to the lunar calendar), the great Buddhist ceremony will be held with Buddha-unfolding, sutra enchanting, praying, sutra debates, etc.
From left to right: Edward (a summer intern from St. Tikhon's Seminary), Br. Christopher, Fr. Martin, Br. Jeremy, Eamon (partially hidden) and Fr. Innocent.
I own the prototype of the CD that this choir will be releasing soon. I can recommend it highly. Fr. Martin has written some beautful new melodies to some traditional Orthodox texts.
Mendut Buddhist Monastery, Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia.
Next to the ancient Candi Mendut (Mendut Temple) is the recent one, Mendut Buddhist Monastery. A fairly modern functional complex for devotees. One of the building imitates the design of the old Pawon Temple, but on a smaller scale. This monastery provides meditation programs for non-residents.
The monastery is a large complex of buildings of a religious and economic nature. The highlight is the location on the Stolobensky Island of Lake Seliger and the Svetlica peninsula, which extends towards the monastery with a cape. The monastery was founded in honor of St. Nil Stolobensky, whose name it is named after. In 1594, with the permission of Patriarch Job, a monastic monastery was opened.
Монастырь представляет собой большой комплекс зданий религиозного и хозяйственного характера. Изюминка – расположение на Столобенском острове озера Селигер и полуострове Светлице, который мысом выдвигается в сторону монастыря. Монастырь основан в честь преподобного Нила Столобенского, чьим именем и назван. В 1594 году с разрешения патриарха Иова была открыта монашеская обитель.
The Monastery of Geghard, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Armenia, is renowned for its 13th-century rock-cut churches and tombs hewn directly into the mountainside, blending seamlessly with the natural landscape. Founded in the 4th century by Gregory the Illuminator, it takes its name from the holy spear believed to have pierced Christ, which was once preserved there. The complex features intricate khachkars, chapels, and tombs that exemplify medieval Armenian monastic architecture and spiritual heritage.
Dharma Jewel Monastery, Chamblee, Georgia, USA.
Formerly the Atlanta Korean Full Gospel Church, and before that, the Northeast Assembly of God.
The Holy Stavropegiac and Patriarchal Preveli Monastery of St. John the Theologian, known as the Monastery of Preveli, comprises two main building complexes, the ruined Lower Monastery of St. John the Baptist, and the currently operational Upper Monastery of St. John the Theologian.
Crete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica.
The monastery of "Santa Maria Occorrevole", in the site of "San Pasquale", in Piedimonte Matese. While you are walking in the wood, you find this wall: it's the border of the retreat of the "Loneliness".
"O Beata solitudo,
O sola beatitudo"
(Blessed loneliness, sole blessness).
Il monastero di "Santa Maria Occorrevole", in località San Pasquale, comune di Piedimonte Matese.
Mentre si cammina nel bosco, si incontra questo muro: è il confine dell'eremo della Solitudine.
"O Beata Solitudo
O Sola Beatitudo."
Kintsvisi Monastery (Georgian: ყინწვისი, Qinc'visi) is a Georgian Orthodox monastery in the Shida Kartli region, eastern Georgia, 10 kilometers from the town Kareli, on a forested slope of a high mountain of the Dzama valley.
The Kintsvisi Monastery complex consists of three churches, of uncertain origin. The central (main) central church dedicated to St Nicholas is thought to date to the early 13th century, in what is generally regarded as a "golden age" of the Georgian monarchy. A very small chapel standing next to it is dedicated to St George, and dates from around the same time.
The oldest church, dedicated to St Mary dates from the 10-11th centuries, but is mostly in ruins.
The site is currently listed by the World Monuments Fund as a field project.
Kintsvisi Monastery (Georgian: ყინწვისი, Qinc'visi) is a Georgian Orthodox monastery in the Shida Kartli region, eastern Georgia, 10 kilometers from the town Kareli, on a forested slope of a high mountain of the Dzama valley.
The Kintsvisi Monastery complex consists of three churches, of uncertain origin. The central (main) central church dedicated to St Nicholas is thought to date to the early 13th century, in what is generally regarded as a "golden age" of the Georgian monarchy. A very small chapel standing next to it is dedicated to St George, and dates from around the same time.
The oldest church, dedicated to St Mary dates from the 10-11th centuries, but is mostly in ruins.
The site is currently listed by the World Monuments Fund as a field project.
This photo was taken at the Rongbu Monastery in Tibet during the 15 day Saga Dawa holiday in celebration of Buddha's birthday. The Rongbu Monastery is the highest monastery in the world and we stopped in on our way back from Mt. Everest. We had no idea this would be going on because Saga Dawa had actually ended the previous day.
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Thiksey Monastery is located on top of a hill, at an altitude of 3,600m, approximately 19km east of Leh in the Ladakh region in north-west India. The monastery was founded in the mid-15th century and follows the Gelug – or “yellow hat” – school of Tibetan Buddhism. Thiksey grew in prominence in Ladakh, second only to Hemis Monastery, administering ten other monasteries in the region. The monastery continues to function as a proper monastic community with about 60 monks living there. Every morning at 7am the monks congregate for early morning prays and breakfast, consisting of barley and butter tea.
Painted door in Thiksey monastery, Ladakh, India.
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The monastery was established in its present location in 1940. However, the tradition of the Valamo monastery dates back to 1717. The monastery was then originally established on Valaam, Lake Ladoga, Russia. (Wikipedia)
In 1230, after obtaining the approval of the Archbishop of Salzburg,the widow of Friedrich III donated land on the western edge of Ptuj to the Dominican Order. The original monastery burnt down in 1302. Various reconstructions and renovations occurred over the years until the early 18th C. The monks inhabited the monastery until 1785 when it was dissolved under the reforms of Joseph II. The municipality purchased the building in 1926 and it is now part of the municipal museum.