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Yarchen Gar

Baiyü County, China · built 1985

Yarchen Gar (Wylie: ya chen sgar), officially known as "Yaqên Orgyän Temple" (THL: Yachen Orgyen Samden Ling), is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of the Nyingma school, with an educational institute and residential community in western Sichuan, China. The majority of its Tibetan and Chinese residents are nuns, leading to it being called the "City of Nuns". By the end of 2019, more than half of their residences had been demolished by Chinese authorities.

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