The Kirti Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism:
- Follows the Gelug school of Buddhism of the Dalai Lama
- Main branch is in Ngaba county in Sichuan province's Ngaba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture
- Ngaba county's branch has about 3,000 monks
- There are 40 other branches in Sichuan, Gansu and Qinghai provinces
- Kirti Monastery also has a branch Dharamsala, India, the seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile