Labrang Monastery Architectural And Artistic Characteristics Of Religious Meaning

Tibetan Buddhist monastery building has a long history, unique style. After thousands of years of development, the formation of huge buildings home and abroad. It is the crystallization of the wisdom of the Tibetan people, carrying and expressing ideas and innovation into the Tibetan Buddhist culture community, called for a wonderful work of the Chinese traditional architecture. With the development and changes of the times, the architectural forms and architectural cultures are from single to multiple, the emergence of new architectural elements, architectural culture increasingly colorful. As an expression of Tibetan Buddhism ideological and cultural, the Tibetan Monastery architectural decoration in the development process has always maintained its cultural dominant position in the process of the development, but there are also little increasingly obvious changes. For instance, architectural features gradually evolved from the initial special religious activities for religious activities and tourism at the same time, meanwhile tourists from all over the world to meet the aspirations of their entertainment, the cultural values of the building to convey the essence of impact, many of the traditional decorative embodied the cultural connotation is gradually diluted, distorted or even disappear, building a landscape of just the eyes of tourists.Labrang Monastery is located in the southeast of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, is one of the six major monasteries of Tibetan Buddhist reputation truly. Scale of its magnificent architecture, the unique Tibetan style of architectural decoration carrying and expressing the notion of a Tibetan Buddhism unique Buddhist culture, to attract the majority of believers and tourists flocked to worship, to visit. Especially in recent years, with the continuous development of the tourism industry, people appreciate and feel the Labrang Monastery architectural charm, misinterpretation of temple architecture and culture phenomenon everywhere. This paper which Labrang Monastery of the Gelug Sect of one of the six major monasteries, for example, combined with the relevant ducument literature, on the basis of field research, religious and cultural meaning behind by the Monastery of architectural decoration and decorative characteristics of art, from both internal and external, to give a detailed introduction, I hope that it will help us certainly with in-depth,comprehensive and correct knowledge and understanding of Tibetan Buddhist monasteries architectural culture.