- Observed: Jan. 27
- Area: Xiahe
The Labrang Thangka Celebration is a significant celebration at the old Labrang Cloister that was one of the six driving religious communities of the Geluk custom of Tibet. Consistently, comfortably dressed individuals rise to the high-height cloister to ask and get favored. At the point when the priests complete the thangka, a huge number of individuals gather before the slant large and the clearly woven thangka is shown. It is a significant feature of numerous a Tibetan Buddhists’ year. The strange practice and seeing many individuals dressed generally are astounding. To see Tibetan love in a memorable area in high-elevation landscape, the Labrang Religious community Thangka Celebration is a put to go on Febrary 15, 2011.
The cloister is around four hours south of Lanzhou. It is situated in a high mountain valley at a rise of around 3,000 meters or 10,000 feet. Before the revealing, certain individuals stand on the tops of a portion of the structures. The structures have a conventional look, and one rooftop is covered with gold leaf. The encompassing slopes mostly look ruined brown except if they are covered with snow. The sight is colorful, yet the hordes of individuals appear to be more modest than at the thangka divulging at the Ganden Cloister close to Lhasa. Individuals are comfortably dressed.
Then, at that point, a few men come out riding ponies. A line of priests wearing red and violet robes rapidly walk out. The initial ones crash images, and the majority of the rest convey an enormous moved yellow thangka on their shoulders. They take the thangka to a spot where they can unroll it down a level, particularly pre-arranged incline. The thangka is in two layers. Two major sheets of material at first cover it, and they are pulled off like a shade to disclose the Buddha figure to the holding up swarm. The Buddha figure has figures of divinities around it. Individuals hurl white bits of material at the thangka to implore.
History
The religious community was established in 1709 during the Qing Line period. It was established precisely 300 years after the Ganden Religious community close to Lhasa was fabricated. The Ganden Religious community was viewed as the first cloister of Tibetan Geluk Buddhism.
Because of its area, the Labrang Cloister was the point of convergence of struggles between the Tibetans, Muslems, Chinese, and Mongolians. It was considered among the main six cloisters in the Geluk custom drove by the Dalai Lama. During the Social Insurgency, some of it was annihilated. In April 1985, the Gathering Corridor burned to the ground. It was supplanted and the new structure was sanctified in 1990.
