A set of books, pictorials and digital video discs on the history and culture of Labrang Monastery, center of the Yellow Sect of Tibetan Buddhism in northwest China's Gansu Province, were launched Sunday in the provincial capital Lanzhou.

The publication series focused on the Labrang Monastery, Tibetan Buddhism and folk culture, biographies of high monks, and tourists' perspectives on Labrang, including texts and photos taken by foreign backpackers and Chinese scholars between 1895 and 1949, which the editors found in libraries at Harvard University and in Russia.