the Chinese and Tibetan nomenclature of Moheyan's teachings and identifies them principally with the East Mountain Teaching: The great debate of the Council of Lhasa between the two principal debators or dialecticians, Moheyan and Kamalaśīla is narrated and depicted in a specific cham dance once held annually at Kumbum Monastery in Qinghai. Influences The 18th century Puning Temple built by the Qianlong Emperor of Qing China in Chengde, Hebei was modeled after Samye. Architectural features of the monastery and their history Samye Monastery is laid out on the shape of a giant mandala; in its center lies the main temple representing the legendary Mount Meru. Other buildings stand at the corners and cardinal points of the main temple, representing continents and other features of tantric Buddhist cosmology. In corners are 4 chörtens - white, red, green (or blue) and black. There are 8 main temples: Dajor ling བརྡ་སྦྱོར་གླིང་ (brda sbyor gling) Dragyar ling སྒྲ་བསྒྱར་གླིང་ (sgra bsgyar gling) Bétsa ling བེ་ཙ་གླིང་ (be tsa gling) Jampa ling བྱམས་པ་གླིང་ (byams pa gling) Samten ling བསམ་གཏན་གླིང་ (bsam gtan gling) Natsok ling སྣ་ཚོགས་གླིང་ (sna tshogs gling) Düdül ling བདུད་འདུལ་གླིང་ (bdud 'dul gling) Tamdrin ling རྟ་མགྲིན་གླིང་ (rta mgrin gling) The original buildings have long disappeared. They have been badly damaged several times — by civil war in the 11th century, fires in the mid 17th century and in 1826, an earthquake in 1816, and in the 20th century, particularly during the Cultural Revolution. As late as the late 1980s pigs and other farm animals were allowed to wander through the sacred buildings. Heinrich Harrer quoted his own words he said to the 14th Dalai Lama of what he saw in 1982 from his airplane en route to Lhasa, Each time it has been rebuilt, and today, largely due to the efforts of Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama from 1986 onward, it is again an active monastery and important pilgrimage and tourist destination. Recent events Imprisonment and suicide In 2009, the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) reports that, according to the information they have received, nine monks studying at Samye Monastery had been sentenced to prison terms varying from two to fifteen years for participating in the protest on 15 March 2008 held at the Samye government administrative headquarters in Dranang County. The monks were joined by hundreds of Tibetans demanding religious freedom, human rights for Tibetans and the return of the Dalai Lama