Red Buddhist Kingdom | A Soul-Stirring Journey to Sertar

**📍 Larung Gar Buddhist Academy** The world's largest Tibetan Buddhist academy! Thousands of red houses blanket the valley, with chanting and juniper smoke enveloping the mountains 🙏 **📍 Mandala Circumambulation** The eternal cycle of the golden temple! Follow the devotees for 108 rounds, and enjoy breathtaking sunset views of the red house ocean from the top floor 🌅 **📍 Sky Burial Platform** An open-air classroom of life and death education (starts at 13:00)! Vultures circle in the sky during this most profound ceremony of life 🦅 **📍 Dongga Monastery** A famous Nyingma sect monastery in Tibet! Thousand-year-old murals and golden stupas, turn the prayer wheels for powerful blessings 📿 **📍 Luoruo Town Grassland** A pure land at the foot of the Buddhist academy! Summer wildflowers carpet the ground, and adorable marmots playfully wrestle 🐾 **⚠️ Pilgrimage Guidelines** ▪️Respect customs by not photographing sky burial ceremonies ▪️No meat, alcohol, or smoking inside the Buddhist academy ▪️Acclimatize in advance for altitude sickness