Monks Inside Ganden Monastery
The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) or Xizang Autonomous Region, called Tibet or Xizang, is a province-level autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC). It was created in 1965 on the basis of Tibet's incorporation by the PRC in 1951. Tibet is the second-largest province-level division of China by area, spanning over 1,200,000 square kilometres, after Xinjiang, and mostly due to its harsh and rugged terrain, is the least densely populated province of the PRC. Ganden Monastery is, together with Sera and Drepung, one of the 'great three' Gelukpa university monasteries of Tibet. It is located at the top of Wangbur Mountain, 36 kilometers NE from Lhasa, at an altitude of 4,300m. Being the farthest from Lhasa of the three university monasteries, Ganden traditionally had a smaller population with some 6,000 monks in the early 20th century.
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