Today, Lengu is administered as part of Zhamla Township in Litang County, Garze Prefecture, Sichuan.
[2] Lenggu is one of a great many Tibetan monasteries and temples scattered across the Tibetan plateau, and has suffered a great deal of decline in the decades following the Chinese Invasion of Tibet.
Once visited by many hundreds of pilgrims a year, the monastery's out-buildings are now largely in a state of decay.
At the height of its activity, there were over 2000 resident monks; nowadays, only a small number remain.
[3] Lenggu became a Yellow Sect monastery by about the year 1690.