Talk:Labrang Monastery

Accuracy?
This article mentions 2000 monks in residence. The article at Alexander Berzin's site suggests there are around 500. I wonder whether anyone has more up-to-date information, both on the number of monks and the status of the monastery as a centre of education? I visted this monastery very briefly during the summer of 2001. At that time I would have said there were less even than 500 monks and very little in the way of educational activity. I befriended some monks who spoke a bit of English and Chinese. I stumbled upon them watching Hong Kong gangster flicks and eating strawberries and yack dumplings in a little room in the town outside the monastery while looking for a guesthouse. Later we went hiking around the monastery, drank tea in their dorm rooms, and discussed the feasibility of their making illegal border crossings into India to pursue education. The impression they gave me was that their opportunities in China were limited. I toured the monastery but saw very little activity of any sort.霊村 11:49, 4 December 2006 (UTC)


 * According to a recent blog, the monastery is home to almost 1200 monks. 81.249.183.178 (talk) 20:07, 15 March 2008 (UTC)


 * According to: Dorje, Gyurme (2009). Footprint Tibet Handbook, p. 800. Footprint Publications, Bath, England. ISBN 978 1 906098 32 2, at its height it "housed 4,000 monks, and when the Fifth Jamyang Zhepa passed away in 1947 there were 300 geshes, 3,000 monks and 50-100 incarnate lamas. The present incumbent, the Sixth Jamyang Zhepa, who lives in Lanzhou, presides over a much depleted monastery where there are barely 1,000 monks, of whom half are engaged in the study of dialectics and the rest in tantic meditation practice." Hope this solves the mystery for you. John Hill (talk) 06:16, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

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