Labrang monastery

拉卜楞寺

at the foot of Fengling Moutain, West of Xiahe city

Hours

9.00am-5.00pm Mon-Sun

About this place

It is one of the six major monaseries.It's has 280 history. It's about 250km southwest from Lanzhou. Now it's belong to Gansu province. In 1985, the Budda colleage established. Now there are 48 Permitted and Ngong owed (living buddha residences). There are 6 colleges with more than 500 monks.

Now it's one of the most well preserved monaseries in China.