Yarchen Gar

Yarchen Gar is a female monastic school founded by Akhyuk Rimpoche in 1980. It is located in an isolated valley at 4000 metres above sea level in Kandze County. In the 90s it hosted about 7000 nuns. In 2001, the Chinese authorities, considering the excessively large camp problematic, ordered a first demolition. In 2019, about half of the complex will be dismantled and non-resident nuns will be evated in the region. The photos were taken in 2017 when the institute had 10,000 attendances.