Founded in the 1980s, the scripture printing house of Muru Temple is the only printing house for Buddhist scriptures in Tibet Autonomous Region.

Maintaining the ancient block printing, the printing house collects 320 volumes of Buddhist scriptures in Tibetan in 128, 000 rectangular woodblocks.

Muru Temple is located in central Lhasa city. Buddhist followers from other areas in Tibet, Qinghai, Yunnan, Sichuan, Gansu etc. often go to the temple to buy scriptures at cost price.

Every woodblock is not easily made -- there is a set of sophisticated and strict process, from material selection to printing. To ensure correctness and durableness, only several characters are printed each day, which need to undergo repeated examination. After examination and correction, woodblocks are immersed in ghee for a whole day, then dried before completed.

Lamas are reading Buddhist scriptures at the Lower Tantric College, Lhasa, capital city of Tibet Autonomous Region, July 2, 2005.