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.