Mick Hartley

From a BBC gallery The Art of Building 2016, showing the 15 finalists of this year's Art of Building architectural photography competition:

[Photo: Marco Grassi]

"Since June 2016, everything has changed in Larung Gar, but almost nobody knows. What before was the largest Buddhist settlement in the world, a remote place out of the modern society where nuns and monks led a passive life, is now being demolished by Chinese authorities."

Larung Gar previously.