Video: The largest monastery: 10,000 monks at an altitude of 4,000 meters
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
We have already talked about the Buddhist monastery, which collected 10,000 Buddhas. But in the Chinese monastery Yarhen there are not so many Buddhas. But there are 10,000 monks! That's what it is the largest monastery in the world - the size of a whole city
This monastery called Yarchen is located in the Sichuan province at an altitude of 4,000 meters above sea level, on the very border with Tibet. From a distance, it looks like a whole city: after the neighboring large monastery was disbanded in 2001, its population almost doubled. So he became the largest in the world.
The houses-cells look, as usual with Buddhist monks, very modest. But every inhabitant of the monastery city has a clean and beautiful dress - it must be that if all 10,000 came together, we would see the whole "Red Sea". By the way, most of the monks are women.
National Geographic even estimates there are as many as 50,000 monks here. Maybe this is a typo, but hardly anyone will give the exact number: few tourists find enough willpower to get to such a height. But a wonderful view opens up from here!
They say that in this monastery, tourists, in general, have nothing to do. Everyone here is very serious and taciturn. The mood of the monks is not very good: there is a danger that the Chinese government will stop looking at the largest monastery turn a blind eye, and within the framework of anti-religious and anti-Tibetan politics, he will disband. Time will tell whether the monks will have time to save their souls before this moment, which monastery they will go to after that, and whether that, in turn, will become the largest in the world.
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