What is the Menba system of monks?

This system was abolished after the liberation of Tibet, and is similar to the system of serving in the army at an advanced age.

The Menba in Tibet used to be a secular system in old Tibet (before the democratic reforms of 1959), and the "living Buddha", the great lama, who held the power, formulated the policy of "two dzongs for one" and "three dzongs for two" in order to ensure that he ruled the country and that the monasteries would have a sufficient number of odd-job monks, craftsmen monks, and martial arts monks. In order to ensure his rule, and also to ensure that the monastery had a sufficient number of laborer monks and military monks, he formulated the policies of "two dzongs and one dzong" and "three dzongs and two dzong". The so-called "two dzongs and one dzong" and "three dzongs and two dzongs" refer to the fact that if a family has two sons, one of them must become a lama, and if there are three sons, two of them must become lamas, and this is the system of supporting monks and nuns as stipulated in the laws of old Tibet. system.