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[[File:Larung Gar (Setta, Sedda), Sichuan (22106949845).jpg|thumb|The houses of the town on the hillside]]
[[File:Larung Gar (Setta, Sedda), Sichuan (22106949845).jpg|thumb|The houses of the town on the hillside]]
'''Larung Gar''' ({{bo|t=བླ་རུང་སྒར་|w=bla rung sgar}}, {{zh|洛若乡}}, ''luoruoxiang'') in the '''Larung Valley''' is a community of buddhist practitioners in [[Sêrtar County]] of [[Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture]], in [[Sichuan]], [[China]]. The population of over 10,000 comprises primarily Tibetan and Han monks and nuns, and is based around the [[Vajrayana]] [[Nyingma]] school's [[Dzogchen]] Serthar Institute founded in 1980 by [[Jigme Phuntsok]].<ref> Faison, Seth, 28 July 1999. "A 'Living Buddha' Plants an Academy". New York Times, http://partners.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/072899china-buddhist-temple.html</ref>
'''Larung Gar''' ({{bo|t=བླ་རུང་སྒར་|w=bla rung sgar}}, {{zh|洛若乡}}, ''luoruoxiang'') or the '''Larung Valley''' is a town in [[Sêrtar County]] of [[Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture]], in [[Sichuan]], [[China]]. The population of over 10,000 comprises primarily monks and nuns, and is based around the Serthar Institute founded by [[Jigme Phuntsok]].{{cn|date=August 2020}}


In June 2016, Chinese authorities ordered a reduction of the resident population to no more than 3,500 Tibetan nuns and 1,500 Tibetan monks, which was implemented by housing demolition. On the other hand, the government gave no restrictions on the growth of Han Chinese migrants in the area.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-36863888 |title=Larung Gar: China 'destroys buildings' at Tibetan Buddhist academy |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=2016-07-22 |accessdate=2016-12-16}}</ref>
A humanitarian crisis began in 2001, when Larung Gar's monks and nuns were forcibly evicted by Chinese authorities, and subjected to arrest, confinement in internment camps, forced re-education camps, and/or forced from all shelter.<ref name=Tibet/>


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== Ngarig Buddhist Institute==
From 2017 to 2018, 4,820 monks and nuns were forcibly evicted while 7,000 residences were demolished.<ref>Radio Free Asia, ''Tibetan Nun Expelled From Buddhist Center Commits Suicide in Internment Camp'', 14 February 2020, https://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/nun-02142020172455.html</ref> The crisis escalated after a June 2016 decree, when Chinese authorities ordered a reduction of the resident population to no more than 3,500 Tibetan nuns and 1,500 Tibetan monks. The Chinese government gave no restrictions on the growth of non-buddhist Han Chinese migrants in the area.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-36863888 |title=Larung Gar: China 'destroys buildings' at Tibetan Buddhist academy |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=2016-07-22 |accessdate=2016-12-16}}</ref> The crisis at Larung Gar has been replicated at other monasteries and nunneries as China expands its efforts to either eradicate or control buddhism in Tibet.<ref name=Tibet>Free Tibet, '' Tibet's Monasteries'', https://freetibet.org/tibets-monasteries</ref>

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== Larung Ngarig Buddhist Institute==
[[File:Larung Gar Five Sciences Buddhist Academy 2014 (14660043083).jpg|thumb|left|The institute seen from the North]]
[[File:Larung Gar Five Sciences Buddhist Academy 2014 (14660043083).jpg|thumb|left|The institute seen from the North]]
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==Horxi Samyang Lonpê Buddhist Institute==
==Horxi Samyang Lonpê Buddhist Institute==
The '''Larung Horxi Samyang Lonpê Buddhist Institute''' ({{bo|t=བླ་རུང་ཧོར་ཤིལ་འཇམ་དབྱངས་བློ་འཕེལ་ནང་བསྟན་སློབ་གླིང་།|z=Larung Horxi Jamyang Lonpê nangdän lobling}}, {{zh|t=喇榮霍西文殊增慧佛學院|p=Larong Huoxi wenshu zenghui foxueyuan}}) is a Buddhist institute 20 kilometers from the Ngarig Buddhist Institute at Larung, 40 kilometers from the central town of Sêrtar County. It's not located in Larung Valley but has been renamed to its current name by Tsultrim Londro ({{bo-textonly|ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་བློ་གྲོས།|lang=bo}}), Kenpo of the Ngarig Buddhist Institute.
The '''Larung Horxi Samyang Lonpê Buddhist Institute''' ({{bo|t=བླ་རུང་ཧོར་ཤིལ་འཇམ་དབྱངས་བློ་འཕེལ་ནང་བསྟན་སློབ་གླིང་།|z=Larung Horxi Jamyang Lonpê nangdän lobling}}, {{zh|t=喇榮霍西文殊增慧佛學院|p=Larong Huoxi wenshu zenghui foxueyuan}}) is a Buddhist institute 20 kilometers from the Ngarig Buddhist Institute at Larung, 40 kilometers from the central town of Sêrtar County. It's not located in Larung Valley but has been renamed to its current name by Cüchim Lozhö ({{bo-textonly|ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་བློ་གྲོས།|lang=bo}}), Känbo of the Ngarig Buddhist Institute.


==Demolition==
==Demolition==

Revision as of 16:49, 6 September 2020

The houses of the town on the hillside

Larung Gar (Tibetan: བླ་རུང་སྒར་, Wylie: bla rung sgar, Chinese: 洛若乡, luoruoxiang) or the Larung Valley is a town in Sêrtar County of Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in Sichuan, China. The population of over 10,000 comprises primarily monks and nuns, and is based around the Serthar Institute founded by Jigme Phuntsok.[citation needed]

In June 2016, Chinese authorities ordered a reduction of the resident population to no more than 3,500 Tibetan nuns and 1,500 Tibetan monks, which was implemented by housing demolition. On the other hand, the government gave no restrictions on the growth of Han Chinese migrants in the area.[1]

Ngarig Buddhist Institute

The institute seen from the North
Main article: Larung Gar Buddhist Academy

The Larung Five Sciences Buddhist Academy is a Buddhist academy located in the Larung Gar.

It was founded in 1980 in the uninhabited valley by Jigme Phuntsok,[2] a lama of the Nyingma tradition.

Horxi Samyang Lonpê Buddhist Institute

The Larung Horxi Samyang Lonpê Buddhist Institute (Tibetan: བླ་རུང་ཧོར་ཤིལ་འཇམ་དབྱངས་བློ་འཕེལ་ནང་བསྟན་སློབ་གླིང་།, ZYPY: Larung Horxi Jamyang Lonpê nangdän lobling, Chinese: 喇榮霍西文殊增慧佛學院; pinyin: Larong Huoxi wenshu zenghui foxueyuan) is a Buddhist institute 20 kilometers from the Ngarig Buddhist Institute at Larung, 40 kilometers from the central town of Sêrtar County. It's not located in Larung Valley but has been renamed to its current name by Cüchim Lozhö (ཚུལ་ཁྲིམས་བློ་གྲོས།), Känbo of the Ngarig Buddhist Institute.

Demolition

In 2016, reports emerged from Tibet that there was mass demolition drive by the People's Republic of China and huge violation of human rights of ethnic Tibetans and even the cancellation of the annual Larung gar festival of Tibetans.[3] It follows an order in July 2016 by the local authorities to cut the number of Larung Gar residents by half to 5,000 and a reward offer to ethnic dwellers if they move.[4][5] On 6 December 2016, Tibetan Government-in-Exile urged UN to intervene on the issue.[6] On 15 December 2016, European Parliament passed a resolution against Chinese authorities' actions and condemned dismantling of Larung Gar.[7][8] However, a report in August 2017 found that the demolitions were still being continued, not due to overpopulation—the area is expansive—but because of a government program to turn the sacred site into a 'tourist attraction'. Thousands of Tibetans had already been displaced, while a Han Chinese migration program to the area continued.[9] The report also found that the Tibetans whose houses were destroyed were forced to sign documents that legally bound them to renounce their land rights in Larung Gar. Afterward, they were sent away via buses without notice on where they will be relocated.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Larung Gar: China 'destroys buildings' at Tibetan Buddhist academy". BBC News. 2016-07-22. Retrieved 2016-12-16.
  2. ^ Edward Wong (2016-11-28). "China Takes a Chain Saw to a Center of Tibetan Buddhism". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-12-03. Retrieved 2016-12-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ "China Offers Cash Rewards For Departures From Larung Gar". Radio Free Asia. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  5. ^ "Larung Gar: China 'destroys buildings' at Tibetan Buddhist academy". BBC. 22 July 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  6. ^ "Tibetan govt. calls on UN for immediate action to save Larung Gar". The Tibet Post. Retrieved 2017-08-04.
  7. ^ "UNPO Welcomes EU Resolution on Ilham Tohti and the Larung Gar Tibetan Buddhist Academy". Unpo.org. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  8. ^ "Human rights: Buddhism in Tibet, Rohingya in Myanmar, mass graves in Iraq - News - European Parliament". Europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  9. ^ https://nextshark.com/larung-gar-china-is-demolishing-the-worlds-largest-tibetan-buddhist-institution-displacing-thousands-of-monks/
  10. ^ Shaw, Steve (3 August 2017). "China Tears Down the Tibetan City in the Sky". Retrieved 11 June 2020.

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