#Dongga Temple Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Jun)
Grasslands
Temples
Address:
About 6 km west of Seda County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Opening times:
Open year round, 24/7Open
Recommended sightseeing time:
2 hour
Phone:
0836-8523707
Feel the majestic aura from the Buddhist holy land
📝 Note tips:
- Reservation for visit: Advance reservation is required, with both online and offline reservation methods available.
- Online reservation : Search for 'Larung Gar Entrance Reservation' on WeChat, where you can book one of three time slots for entry: 9:10 AM, 1:40 PM, and 4:40 PM. The visit is generally 40 minutes long, with the same vehicle for both entry and exit. Tickets are released 54 hours in advance (at 6 PM), so for a visit on the 4th, you need to book precisely at 6 PM on the 1st.
- Offline reservation : You can make a reservation on site one day in advance at the Seda County Jinma Grassland Tourist Distribution Center, where the number of tickets for each time slot is limited. If you can't make a reservation, you can also enter through local channels, with costs ranging from 100 to 200 yuan.
📝 Note tips:
- Best time to visit: May to October, when the weather is warmer and the mountains are covered with red leaves.
🗓 Itinerary:
- Dongga Monastery (over 3 hours) - Seda Sky Burial Platform (2 hours) - Larung Gar Five Sciences Buddhist Academy (2 hours) - Mandala (2 hours): First, visit Dongga Monastery, where marmots appear from July to October. Then return to the foot of the Buddhist Academy for lunch, followed by a brief stop before heading to the Sky Burial Platform to learn about the Tibetan sky burial customs. Afterwards, proceed to the Five Sciences Buddhist Academy, stroll along the academy's paths, and experience the monks' way of practice. As night falls, you can stand on the platform beside the Mandala to overlook the entire valley and enjoy the quiet, dazzling night.
📝 Note tips:
- Larung Gar Five Sciences Buddhist Academy is a place of religious activities, and it is important to respect local religious beliefs during your visit.
- Flying drones is prohibited in the Buddhist Academy.
- Be sure to keep warm and protect yourself from the sun.
- The average altitude of Seda is around 4,000 meters, so always pay attention to your physical condition.
- Private vehicles are not allowed to enter, and you need to park your vehicle in advance at the Luoruo Town parking lot and take the shuttle bus from the distribution center.
@dd.s0n N3ls0n
Seda | The world's largest Buddhist academy, you should visit at least once
Seda Route
Seda Buddhist Academy → Jinma Grassland → Danqing Medicine King Mountain → Dongga Temple
Buddhist Academy Route
Observation Deck → Altar City → Library → Great Hall → Sky Burial Platform → Reclining Buddha Temple → Long Staircase
📷Check-in points
1️⃣Observation Deck: You can overlook the Buddhist Academy, a great place for photos. 2️⃣ Altar City: Clockwise around the prayer wheel, a place that emits golden light, with three layers in total.
3️⃣Reclining Buddha Temple: Next to the altar, no photos are allowed here.
4️⃣Long Staircase: You must walk through it once!! The staircase going down from the Altar City.
5️⃣Dongga Temple: You can see it as soon as you enter Seda, and it's really shocking to take photos inside.
📝Reservation Method
Larong Gou Mini Program: Make a reservation 2 days in advance, the round-trip ticket is 30, wait for the car at the Luoruo Collection Center in advance.
Seda Jinma Grassland Tourist Collection Center: Round trip 40/person, directly go offline to buy the ticket for the next day.
🚶Travel Tips
1️⃣You can take pictures of the morning mist at 8 o'clock in the morning, and the sun shining on the red houses at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
2️⃣The tour time is 1 hour. If you miss it, it's okay. You can wait to leave with the next bus (the last bus is at 8 o'clock).
3️⃣You can't wear a hat in the Buddha Hall, your clothes can't be revealing, and don't casually take pictures of monks and Tibetans on the road.
4️⃣It is recommended to stay in Seda County, book tickets offline directly from the county, and you can also rent Tibetan clothes in the county~
5️⃣The altitude of Seda is about 4000, the temperature is very low during this period, wear cotton clothes/down jackets, we wore thick Tibetan clothes and it was very cold❄️
@byss_w1s3rd
There are many friends who know about Seda, but most of my friends only know that Seda has Wuming Buddhist College and Tianyuetai. In fact, Dongpu Temple not far from the Buddhist College is worth seeing. Dongpu, which means white conch in Tibetan, is named after Dongpu Temple. Dongpu Temple is one of the famous temples of the Tibetan Buddhism Nyingma School, and it is the first of the 13 temples in ancient and modern times. It is the largest and most influential Gelugpa temple in Yadong, and it is an important temple in the modern history of Tibet.