100-day Meditation Ceremony

The 100-day Meditation Ceremony is a yearly Buddhist practice for every religious people here. It involves group class and individual meditation in the halls and in the little cubes. The 100-day meditation starts normally by end of fall in early November each year. It is one of the biggest ceremonies in Yarchen Gar.

The ceremony conducts three classes each day, in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. The meditation is not completely meditation in doors; the nuns will enter their cubes everyday in the morning before sunrise and will eat only simple food for the days. The nuns will also have group class everyday sometimes, so normally you will see them moving in large groups during this ceremony. The meditation is usually done in the cubes built on the hill side outside of the Island. The little cubes used by the nuns during the meditation time are quite unique in Yarchen Gar.