Labuleng Lamasery is situated in the western suburb of Xiahe County, Gannan Prefecture. With the Phoenix Mountain behind and the Dragon Mountain in front, it takes a special naturally endowed position of “Golden Fish Basin”. The monastery was built in 1710 by Jiamuyang, the first Living Buddha, and now it is the largest cultural center of the Tibetan Buddhism in Gansu,Qinghai and Sichuan provinces after being built and rebuilt by the Living Buddhas of ages. Occupying an area of 1234 mu, this monastery owns 6 sermon halls, 84 Buddha hall, 30 Buddha palaces and 10000 rooms for monks. As one of the six suzerain monasteries of the Tibetan Buddhism (Gelug School), this lamasery collects wisdom from nationalities of Tibetan, Mongol and Han, which is famous for its exquisite architecture art and religious culture. It is a monastery with the most numerous book collections with more than 60000 volumes of Buddhism scriptures. It is the world's largest high education centre of Lamaism with six institutes. The grand religious ceremonies are respectively held on 4th -17th 01 and 29th 06-15th07 of the Lunar
Year in Labuleng lamasery, among which the“Displaying and sunning the
Portrait of Buddha”held on 13th 01 and the Debate Over Scripture
Held on 8th 07 are grand and the most interesting.