Smoke offering in Yarchen Gar, Tibet 2018

            Located in an isolated valley 4000m above sea level in Pelyül དཔལ་ཡུལ། county, Kandze (Ch Ganzi) Tibet Autonomous Prefecture, Yarchen Monastery is a Nyingma Sect. Gar built in 1985. With more than 10,000 Sangha members now, it's the largest concentration of nuns and monks in the world. Most of the Sanghas are nuns. 

Having such a huge Sangha population, the place is severely lacking in lodgings and retreat facilities. Food,water and clothes are in extremely short supply, electric power is only available from 7pm to 10pm every day... Though living in such a miserable conditions and having been frequented by illnesses, the Sanghas have shown remarkable powers of endurance and perseverance. They diligently practice the Buddha Dharma and seek liberation from Samsara. 

A Fundraising Project was initiated by some philanthropists to reconstruct the nuns' quarters and improve the living facilities of the monatery. 

The current Chief Abbot His Holiness Achuk Rinpoche, is an incarnation of the great terton Longsal Nyingpo (1625-1682) of Kathok Monastery who was an incarnation of Amitabha Buddha. He is the head of the Nyingma Sect in China and now the foremost person of great holiness and virtue in all Tibet. Born in 1927 in Eastern Tibet, Achuk Rinpoche has spent 43 years in retreat with his master, Tulku Arik Rinpoche. As a realized Buddhist master, Achuk Rinpoche is regarded as one of the world's greatest living exponents of the Great Perfection Teaching. 

For regular travelers, Yarchen Monastery is definitely not a good place for sightseeing, unless you want to experience absolute isolation and buddhism atmosphere without being afraid of the adverse conditions.

Taken in: 中國 / 四川省 / 甘孜藏族自治州 (show map)

Taken on: September 11, 2018

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Amdo ཨ༌མདོ

Kham ཁམས་བོད

Eastern Tibet

Pelyül དཔལ་ཡུལ། county

Yarchen Gar ཡར་ཆེན་དཀར་།

Yarchen Gön ཡར་ཆེན་དགོན།

monk གྲྭ་བ། grwa ba

tibetan nationality/ Tibetans བོད་རིགས། bod rigs

tibetan nation/ tibetan people བོད་ཀྱི་མི་བརྒྱུད bökyi migyü

incense/smoke offering ལྷ་བསང་ lha bsang

religious ceremony of burning incense/ juniper etc བསངས་གསོལ bsangs gsol/sangsöl

clouds of incense smoke སྤོས་ཀྱི་དུད་སྤྲིན spos kyi dud sprin/ pökyi dütrin

fragrant tree good for incense/ non-prickly himalayan juniper བདུག་སྤོས་ཤིང༌ bdug spos shing / dukpöshing « less

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Camera:	Nikon D850
Aperture:	f/5.6
Exposure Time:	0.025 sec (1/40)
Focal Length:	150mm
ISO:	1000
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Spot
White Balance:	Auto
Gain Control:	Low gain up
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Capture NX 2.4.7 W
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