Belief in Skeptical Thought

Monks assemble at the stone courtyard in Labrang Monastery for prayers

There may be a certain purity to the wordless absorption of knowledge. But for centuries in the flat, wide Daxia River Valley at Labrang Monastery, one of six monasteries in the Yellow Hat Sect of Tibetan Buddhism, monks have practiced debate as part of their monastic training in the development of formal analytical skills.