| The Tibetan Lamas exercise rite during a grand Buddha-greeting assembly in the Gedan Songzanlin Lamasery, a renowned and historic Tibetan Buddhist temple in Shangri-la County, southwest China's Yunnan Province, March 11, 2009. Some 10,000 pilgrims of Tibet Lamaism attend the Great Prayer Assembly, chanting the paean of the Scripture and presenting Hada, a white long silk scarf considered as a token of blessing, to celebrate the Buddha-Greeting Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the New Year's very first month according to traditional Tibetan calendar. [Xinhua] |
