Religious devotees of the Serthar Buddhist Institute travel mainly from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia to pray and study in a remote hillside settlement in the Larung Gar Valley, Tibet. The nearest city, Chengdu is located 370 miles away.
The wooden huts built to house the students on the steep hillsides don't have toilets and inhabitants have to share communal facilities. In spite of the cold, no heating is provided either. Monks and nuns are separated from each other by a road which runs through the settlement which was established in 1980.
The following article includes many images of life in this strange, far flung environment without televisions.
Inside the largest Buddhist settlement in the world | Daily Mail Online
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