Monday, August 20, 2018

Visiting Lamaling Monastery



Lamaling is a surprising name as the Chinese transcribe it Lamalin (喇嘛林) and they distinguish lin and ling. Nevertheless the small monastery is interesting. It had been burnt down in 1930 and later along with other institutions during the revolution. It belong to Bayi district – just to get an idea on the map (about 30 km south of Bayi).
Lamaling Monastery belongs to the Nyingmapa sect, where the monks wear red hats; literally the ancient sect. They have a lot of ritual deriving from the non-Buddhist Bön religion of Tibet.
The main building looks like a pagoda and is octagonal.


The Pagoda 




Books on the table
 


Happily turning the prayer drums


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