Thousands of tiny wooden huts.

The hillsides are dotted with thousands of tiny wooden huts packed in close together. Thousands of red wooden huts in a massive cluster. These are the homes for the monks and nuns. The red and brown huts are nearly identical, with one to three rooms per hut and no toilets installed.

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Larung Gar Buddhist Academy

Larung Gar Buddhist Academy (བླ་རུང་ལྔ་རིག་ནང་བསྟན་སློབ་གླིང་།). Sêrtar (གསེར་ཐར་རྫོང་།) (Seda). Kham (Sichuan).

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Early morning at Larung Gar Buddhist Academy

Early morning at Larung Gar Buddhist Academy (བླ་རུང་ལྔ་རིག་ནང་བསྟན་སློབ་གླིང་།). Sêrtar (གསེར་ཐར་རྫོང་།) (Seda). Kham (Sichuan).

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Early morning at Larung Gar Buddhist Academy

Early morning at Larung Gar Buddhist Academy (བླ་རུང་ལྔ་རིག་ནང་བསྟན་སློབ་གླིང་།). Sêrtar (གསེར་ཐར་རྫོང་།) (Seda). Kham (Sichuan).

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Early morning at Larung Gar Buddhist Academy

Early morning at Larung Gar Buddhist Academy (བླ་རུང་ལྔ་རིག་ནང་བསྟན་སློབ་གླིང་།). Sêrtar (གསེར་ཐར་རྫོང་།) (Seda). Kham (Sichuan).

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Tending butter lamps

Tending butter lamps. Amdo (Qinghai).

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Women turning prayer wheels, Pema

Women turning prayer wheels, Pema (པདམ) (Banma). Amdo (Qinghai).

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