Where is the Seda Buddhist Institute?

It is located in Luoruo Town, Seda County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province.

History

The college was formerly known as the Wuming Buddhist College of Lalong Monastery.

The college was founded in 1880 by Dr. Jang Dorje, a Nyingma monk, who built a "Rigchu" (retreat) for the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. In the 1980s, nyingma monks jinmei puntsho expansion of the practice point, the creation of small-scale sermon courtyard and meditation courtyard each one, there were 32 students, jinmei puntsho as khenpo.

In May 1985, the formation of lhalong study sutra point, to 1993, the study sutra point students increased to more than 2,000 people, sutra 54 people. 1997, the establishment of lhalong monastery five bright buddhist college. In the late 1990s, the scale gradually expanded, the number of personnel increased dramatically, geological, fire, health, security and other hidden dangers.

In 2013, the college is located in Luoruo Township withdrawn, the establishment of Luoruo Township, Lalong Monastery Wuming Buddhist College was included in the withdrawal of townships and townships overall planning and construction, through the withdrawal of townships and townships, demolition of illegal and non-compliance, standardization of management, to create a well-managed, functionally sound, suitable for learning and cultivation of the environment.

January 9, 2014, the college Jom Scripture Hall behind the monastery fire, burned the monastery 150, later identified as a short circuit triggered by electric wires. In the same year, Sedar County invested 8.5 million yuan to renovate the 10KV lines of the Buddhist College.

On November 26, 2015, 400 monks moved into the newly built Seda County Luoruo Township Social Assistance and Welfare Center. In December of the same year, Serta County carried out low-voltage power grid renovation of the college.

In 2016, the government-funded community medical and health service center of Wuming Buddhist College was completed.In July, the Wuming Buddhist College of Lalong Monastery rectified the fire safety and other hidden dangers.On August 28, 2017, the establishment of the Sedar Wuming Buddhist College's institutional affairs committee and the Lalong Monastery's management committee was listed. Sedar Wuming Buddhist College focuses on teaching activities, improves the quality of schooling, and strives to build into a formalized, rule of law modern religious colleges and universities.?

Main Courses

The curriculum of the institute is divided into three main parts: Hinayana, Tantra and ****tong culture. The Hinayana program includes the Precepts, Incarnation, Ksitigarbha, Zhongguan and Prajna, while the Tantra program includes the Sutra Classics, various types of Kama Sutra, Sangha Sutra, Perfection Sutra, Great Perfection, and the Tricks of the Trade. ***The same cultural program features statements, medical prescription, Tibetan, Chinese, computers, and history.

Layout

La Rong ditch surrounded by mountains, more than 20 kilometers southeast of Seda County, the ditch for the gate of the Buddhist Institute of the workshop, the workshop is for the Tibetan and Chinese bilingual inscription of the "Seda Lama Rong Wu Ming Buddhist Institute" school name.

The gate on both sides of a dozen white towers to place the scriptures and statues of Buddha. Through the gate and along the Lalong Ditch, it is about 3 kilometers to reach the college. The main hall of the institute is situated at the bottom of the valley, including the Great Sutra Hall where lamas study, the Han Sutra Hall where Han Chinese monks study, and the Jom Sutra Hall where Jomsoms study. The altar at the top of the mountain **** is divided into three levels, the first and second level can turn the sutra.

The large number of wooden huts built by Dharma learners themselves on the hillside are often uniformly painted maroon with sacred meanings, and by 2017 the red houses had exceeded 10,000 and stretched for several kilometers, making it a unique landscape and making Lha Rong Monastery's Wuming Buddhist Institute one of the favorite pilgrimage sites for photographers and travelers.

But as the red houses built by monks and nuns on their own initiative radiate gradually up the hilltop along the slopes, the highest slope has been nearly 45 °, in the event of severe weather caused by landslides and other geological disasters, it is likely to occur a large area of collapse, and due to the lack of planning, the monks and nuns of the area of the garbage piled up randomly, dirty toilets, in the event of an epidemic will be difficult to control.

Therefore the Serta County government began to demolish and renovate the Buddhist college in 2016 to improve infrastructure such as fire escapes, main tourist corridors, sewage pipes, drinking water supply and garbage disposal, and to build new functional buildings such as vegetable markets, bathrooms and restaurants.

The above references? Baidu Encyclopedia-Sedar Buddhist College