China has stationed around 400 military personnel at the Larung Gar Buddhist Academy in Serthar County, eastern Tibet, as part of a broader strategy to tighten control over the region, the Central ...

Larung Gar is in Serthar County (Seda in Chinese), part of the Kardze (Ganzi) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province. According to a report by RFA in December 2024, approximately 400 ...

Chinese authorities have given a recent blow to the major hub of Tibetan Buddhist learning by expelling more than 1,000 Tibetan monks and nuns from the Larung Gar Buddhist Academy, according to ...

Larung Gar, founded in 1980, has long been a hub for Buddhist monks and nuns seeking to deepen their spiritual education. However, it has faced increasing restrictions from the Chinese government ...

China has deployed nearly 400 troops and multiple choppers at the Larung Gar Buddhist Academy, the largest Tibetan Buddhist study center in the world, in an effort to ensure a stricter ...

Larung Gar Buddhist Academy, recognised as the world's largest Tibetan Buddhist study center, has witnessed a sharp rise in Chinese military presence, signifying intensified surveillance and ...

While Larung Gar is by far the biggest monastery in Tibet, in fact the biggest in the world, it is not the only one. All over the country devote Buddhists, lay people and monastics, are finding ways ...

Han disciples at Larung Gar, who numbered about 2,000 by 2019, have been forced to leave. The party is trying to “segregate” Buddhism in China, says Tenzin Norgay of the International Campaign ...

Yarchen Gar, founded in 1985, is the other great "monastic encampment" in the world after Larung Gar. It is located in an isolated valley at 4000 meters above sea level in Baiyu County, Sichuan ...

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