Inside the world’s biggest student village where thousands of trainee Buddhist monks live in technicolour mountain homes
Larung Gar Buddhist is home to more than 10,000 students perched on 13,000ft mountainside
THESE stunning images capture the majesty and mayhem of the world’s largest Buddhist school – perched precariously on a mountainside in China.
More than 10,000 nuns and monks live around the astonishing Larung Gar Buddhist Institute, dotted with student digs painted in Tibetan red – all at 13,000ft above sea level.
Located in the Gharze Prefecture of Sichuan, China, the remarkable settlement is the largest of its kind anywhere in the world today.
Thousands of Buddhists flock to centre of learning every year to receive instruction from followers of the faith.
American photographer Jesse Earl Rockwell, 32, visited the settlement and spent six days cataloguing the remarkable way of life.
Most of the students hail from the Tibetan region of China, which has sought independence from China since 1951.
Tibetans are captured leading their everyday lives amid the soaring peaks of the region all while the diverse birds of the mountainous regions soar overhead.
The site grew from a mere handful of students who established the camp following the end of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in 1976, to more than 10,000 today.
An estimated 4,000 of those are believed to be women training to become nuns.
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