SICHUAN, CHINA: IS THIS the most densely packed student village in the world? Dizzying images of thousands of log cabins piled high along hillsides and down valley are actually student accommodation. Stretching far and wide these incredible pictures show the red orange and green decorated make shift homes of local monks and nuns tightly packed together surrounding the main university for the study of Tibetan Buddhism. Other pictures show the traditional sky burial, whereby the deceased is place inside a vessel and left for vultures to consume. Photographer Jesse Earl Rockwell (32) from Santa
SICHUAN, CHINA: IS THIS the most densely packed student village in the world? Dizzying images of thousands of log cabins piled high along hillsides and down valley are actually student accommodation. Stretching far and wide these incredible pictures show the red orange and green decorated make shift homes of local monks and nuns tightly packed together surrounding the main university for the study of Tibetan Buddhism. Other pictures show the traditional sky burial, whereby the deceased is place inside a vessel and left for vultures to consume. Photographer Jesse Earl Rockwell (32) from Santa Barbara, California spent six days on location at Larung Gar Buddhist Institute, Gharze Prefecture, Sichuan China to photograph this incredible sprawling hillside habitation.
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Keywords: architecture, dense, epic, funeral, habitation, landscape, learning, location, monks, nuns, photography, population, spiritual, sprawling, students, traditional, vast
