MR4534 Larungar monastery

MR4534 Larungar monastery

Larungar monastery, near Sertha, in the Golok province of Eastern Tibet. When this image was taken, in February 2016, twenty-thousand nuns, monks and lay disciples were studying in his outstanding philosophical college, established by the great scholar and spiritual teacher Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok (1933-2004). Since the summer 2016, the government has untertaken the destruction of a large part of the houses, to reduce the population to five thousand.

Buy on-line a fine art photographic print, signed by the hand of Matthieu Ricard, buddhist monk, photographer and author. He has also been the French interpreter of His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama since 1989. Some of the photographs in his collection are printed in limited edition, signed, numbered and delivered with a certificate of authenticity.