Qinghai tibetian plateau, Xining, yellow hat Sect and the former home of the currnet Dalai Lama, Ta er si

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Ta er Si monastery 1560 yellow hat sect whith 700 monks stuying at the 6 schools and 1000 monks living there

silk fabric wall hanging from monastary

museum in Xining of Tibetian medicine, sacred objects, tibetian costumes and tankas

English tour guide at Ta er Si monastery

grasslands in qinghai

monks at Ta er Si

Ta er Si

grasslands and below monks in debate

These are some photos of the Labran Monastery Labuleng Si, Gelupa Yellow hat sect which i went to from

Xining Quinghai province on the bus through through the grasslands where the bus stopped and we all got

off stretched our legs and lay down to look at the clouds

  with the tibetians in costume and  they were chanting all the way.

On arrival i got my guesthouse and went on a english guided tour with 8 other interesting people through the monastary which lies on the Tibetian plateau, frountier zone or Han chinese, tibetians, and Muslims.

There are 700 monks studying there and 1000 monks living there.  Pilgrims from all over come to walk the route around and pray.

This is one of the most important tibetian monastaries outside of Tibet.