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Yarchen Gar (Tibetan: ཡ་ཆེན་སྒར་, Wylie: ya chen sgar), officially known as "Yaqên Orgyän Temple" (Tibetan: ཡ་ཆེན་ཨོ་རྒྱན་བསམ་གདན་གླིང་།, 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".[1][2] By the end of 2019, more than half of their residences had been demolished by Chinese authorities.[citation needed]
- ^ "Sichuan's remote Yarchen Gar monastery, where Buddhist monks and nuns suffer on the path to enlightenment". TODAY. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
- ^ "Hardship, enlightenment in Sichuan's crowded 'City of Nuns'". South China Morning Post. 2018-12-07. Retrieved 2022-09-15.