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The Zhaibung
Monastery
Brief Introduction：
Lying in the western suburbs of Lhasa, the Zhaibung
Monastery is the largest monastery among the six
monasteries of Tibet's Gelug sect. The second Dalai
Lama's stupa and two stupas of Tibetan founders
are consecrated in the Zhaibung Monastery. The most
precious treasure there is the triton left by Sakyamuni.
The monastery used to have seven Zhacangs in its
most prosperous time, but those later became four
Zhacangs. The largest Zhacang, the Losailing Zhacang's
main sutra hall is supported by 108 round wooden
pillars. It is 1,100 square kilometers and can hold
5,000 lamas, for reciting the Tibetan canon in a
congregation. The Zhaibung Monastery is famous all
over Tibet for its annual Shoton Festival. Every
June 30th, a large-scale tangka portrait of the
Sakyamuni Buddha is exhibited on a nearby slope,
and more than ten thousand people come to the monastery
for worship and sight-seeing.
