How can they take care of all of us Tibetans and mankind?”“They are too busy with Han donors,” he went on. The second biggest alligator gar to date was a 279-pound specimen caught in Texas back in 1951. This Creature Saves Millions Of Lives Annually (And Probably Already Saved Yours) He wore thick glasses and spoke in a gentle voice.“I am from Dege in eastern Tibet,” he said. Larung was a place purely designed for faith or an escape from desperation.We came across a group of monks who were building a new house.“It takes five or six days to build such a house here,” one of the young monks explained. I want to explain to the rest of the world my knowledge and understanding of Buddhism.”“Here, life is good, even though so many people live so closely together. He was in his 80s but appeared strong. I had become so thin.”Before we left, we met another bunch of Han monks. Jigme had a sturdy build and a perfect smile. That’s not the way we common people practice Buddhism. “You should be the one paying me to gain some merit.”Pilgrims performing ritual prostrations in Larung. The alligator gar is among the largest species of freshwater fish found in North America. There were notices outside every ladies’ toilet proclaiming, “Gentlemen, you will lose merit if you enter the women’s toilet.”At a temple, we found Sangye, a teenage nun. They said it will be easier to rescue them in case there was an emergency but the old now find it hard to come up to the classes. But they also bring in problems. One of them called Rambo said, “Yes, the monks are good for our business. They were of all ages, from 5 to 100. A rare glimpse of life in the Tibetan monastery, now closed to foreign visitors.The Larung Gar Buddhist Academy is home to around 4,000 monks and nuns.The entrance to Larung was dismal. Williams donated it to the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science in Jackson where it sits display for all to see.This video includes some of the biggest alligator gar ever caught in the world:From the wildest corners of the planet, to extraordinary encounters in our own backyard, we provide a platform and community to celebrate the wildlife enthusiast in us all.â an alligator gar bigger than a person was pulled from a Mississippi Lake. â stretching to more than eight feet in length and weighing 327 pounds. Sangye’s father had died after being struck by lightning a few years back. You can’t even trust them to take care of themselves. Larung Gar: The World’s Largest Monastery – and Highest Slum A rare glimpse of life in the Tibetan monastery, now closed to foreign visitors. Did you hear about the fire? Kham and Amdo Tibetans like to wear vests but the central Tibetans don’t so it was put to a vote.”I asked him if the government rolled in from time to time.“Yes, officials do,” he whispered. Instead of asking us, they began pestering the monk.“You should be ashamed to ask me,” he said as he chased them away. “You will see the senior monks if you go to any expensive restaurant in Sertar tonight, enjoying life with their Han followers. But this whole place is very democratic because every proposal for a new rule has to be put to vote. “Or they feed birds and cats to gain merit and then forget to clean up.”These days, there are perhaps around 4,000 to 5,000 residents in Larung — no one was certain (official restrictions apparently limited the number of residents to a maximum of 2,000). Go to a Han restaurant because Han followers can’t have Tibetan food. It has a head-and-body length of 250 to 330 cm (8 ft 2 in to 10 ft 10 in) with a 70 to 105 cm (28 to 41 in) long tail, and is 142 to 220 cm (4 ft 8 in to 7 ft 3 in) high at the shoulder, averaging about 168 cm (5 ft 6 in) in females and 188 cm (6 ft 2 in) in males. “I miss most of them but whenever I feel short of money, I go and attend a few classes.”A group of young Tibetan women broke into our conversation to beg for money. The pressure of the materialistic life in China is pushing more people towards religion. Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan province Earlier I understood nothing. The long-struggling Afghanistan might go through a new surge of COVID-19 cases that could trigger a full-scale crisis -- unlike the first wave.Beijing is well positioned to continue growing its influence in Central Asia, though some challenges remain ahead.COVID-19 will likely have a range of significant effects on Indo-Pacific security and geopolitics in both the short and long-term. But once we got out of the car, we finally realized the true scale and beauty of Larung — hills upon hills of crimson red, an endless cluster of red houses, almost identical, all tiny, just large enough to contain a small bed and a luggage bag — resembling a few thousand red Lego blocks pressed on to the earth.Most of the shacks at Larung were cubicles that went about 2 meters in each dimension, with just enough space for a small bed, a stove, and a chimney. “But nowadays they largely leave us alone. They were all immigrants here, coming from across the Tibetan-Qinghai plateau and beyond. About 10 to 20 percent of the residents were Han. 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