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Prayer Festival Banned

October 26, 2018;

The Dechen Shingdrup festival, the major annual Tibetan prayer festival at Larung Gar in Tibet, the world’s largest Buddhist institute, has been banned by the Chinese authorities for the third year running. Larung Gar was in the past home to up to 40,000 monks and nuns but much of it has been demolished by the Chinese authorities and it is now greatly reduced.

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