To the left is the mortal world, to the right is the pure land: Labrang Monastery

Labrang Monastery is located at the end of the main street of the county town, with the Daxia River flowing in front of it. On one side of the river is the turbid world of mortals, and on the other side is the pure land of temples. Founded in the 48th year of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty (1709), Labrang Monastery is one of the six main monasteries of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism. It retains the best Tibetan Buddhist teaching system in the country and is known as the 'World's Tibetan Academy'. The movie 'A World Without Thieves' was filmed here. Around the monastery is the world's longest prayer wheel path, with more than 1,700 prayer wheels, stretching 3.5 kilometers around the entire monastery. It is quite spectacular, and it takes about an hour and a half to complete a circuit. In this era of lost faith, there is always a group of Tibetans or believers who maintain their inner devotion, prostrating and praying for blessings with their actions, shaking the mundane world. Before officially entering the main gate, one needs to bypass the long streets and alleys. Passing by the outpatient department of Labrang Monastery's Medical College, I was astonished. It turns out that Labrang Monastery has its own medical college and a pharmaceutical factory, and the Tibetan medicines are all collected and made by the monks. Three types of medicines produced by the Medical College, 'Jiebai Pills', 'Jiuwei Chenxiang Powder', and 'Jiuwei Banhuang Powder', have been included in the national pharmacopoeia. Labrang Monastery is backed by Fengshan Mountain and faces Longshan Mountain, perfectly situated on a basin. It is unimaginably large, not just a temple, but a sprawling complex of buildings. Labrang Monastery has six scripture halls (six major colleges), forty-eight large and small Buddha halls, over five hundred prayer wheel rooms, and more than ten thousand monk quarters, covering an area of over a thousand acres. At its peak, the monastery housed up to four thousand monks. The main buildings such as scripture halls and Buddha halls are painted in red, yellow, or dark brown, with roofs adorned with glowing golden tops and gilded Dharma wheels, making them even more eye-catching, while the exterior walls of the monk quarters are all painted white. Labrang Monastery is different from other temples in that it offers free guided tours by monks. Following a crowd, I listened to the monks introduce the situation of several main Buddha halls. The Thangka murals and butter sculptures of Labrang Monastery are also unique. Labrang Monastery