Phag Mo Gling, located at Town of Bajiaolou, Yajiang County, Ganzi Tibetan Prefecture, 464km southwest to Chengdu City, is a Kagyu monastery with a history of 900 years. Phag Mo Gling was named after the mountain where it is located. Holy Phag Mo Gling Mount is situated on its east side, which is called ¡°Dhoji Phag Mo in Tibetan. Benefited from the belief and teaching of reincarnation as well as creatures born in equal in Tibetan Buddhism, the wildlife around the monastery has been always worsh...
Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, lies in the hinterland of the Chengdu Plain, in central Sichuan Province. Covering a total land area of 12,400 square kilometers, Chengdu City has a jurisdiction of over 7 districts, 4 cities and 8 counties. Chengdu City covers a total area of 12.3 thousand square kilometres (4,749 square miles) with a population of over 11 million.Benefiting from Dujiangyan Irrigation System which was constructed in 256 B.C., Chengdu Plain is reputed as Tian Fu Zhi Guo...
Sichuan Province, located in southwest China, is one of the largest and most inaccessible provinces in the nation. This province covers an area of 485,000 kilometers (187,000 miles) and boasts the largest population in China, with 87 million people.Sichuan Province is bordered by the Tibetan Plateau in the west and by the Three Gorges and the Yangtze River in the east. The eastern part of the Sichuan basin is ringed by lofty mountains and experiences a subtropical and humid climate. The western ...
Located in an isolated valley 4000m above sea level in Pelyul (Baiyu) County, Garze (Ganzi), Sichuan, Yachen Monastery ( Yaqing Si in Chinese) is a Nyingma Sect. Gar built in 1985. With more than 10,000 Sangha members now, its 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 avai...
Peter Goullart was brought up in the Orient and spent most of his life there. This book describes his years in the ancient forgotten Chinese kingdom of Nakhi in Yunnan, by the Tibetan border, where, as a representative of the Chinese Industrial Co-operatives, he really mixed with the people. This is a book about paradise by a man who lived there for nine years. It is not easy to write a good book about paradise, but people are Mr Goullarts forte, and when he mixes us up with the Nakhis he delive...
