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Located
in Xiahe County of Gansu Province, and facing Longshan (Dragon
Mountain) across only Daxia Rever, Labuling Lamasery, formerly
known as Zhaxiqi Lamasery built by the river side at the mountain
foot is the largest lamasery of the Zang Buddhism, and regarded
by the Tibetan nationality as a treasure bowl.
The construction of Labaling Lamasery was started
in the 48th year of Emperor Kangxi reign (1710), by Living Buddha
Jiamuyang the First. The large-scale buildings are cradled in-between
the two Tibetan towers standing at each end of the Phoenix Mountain.
They embrace 6 scripture halls, 84 Buddhist halls, 31 Tibetan-style
towers, 31 Buddhist palaces, over 500 rooms of Sutra cylinders,
more than 10,000 dormitories for monks, totaling 400,000 square
meters in construction area. Resplendent and magnificent in appearance,
and most well-known for its six grand colleges, Labuling Lamasery
has been  the largest educational institution for Lamaism in the
world.
It's a temple with the largest collections
of scriptures in China, tens of thousands of cultural relics as
well as over 60,000 volumes of Tibetan classics. It also houses
a gold stature of Buddha with a height of ten meters, a mummy
of a senior monk wrapped in gold, nearly 1.7 meter-long tusk etc.
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