Tibetans celebrate Butter Lamp Festival 2011

July,28 2016 BY Master Catherine Jigme 0 COMMENTS

Thousands of butter-lamps were burning in the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, Dec. 20, 2011. Tibet on Tuesday celebrated its annual Butter-lamp Festival, which falls on the 25th day of the 10th month of the Tibetan calendar every year in commemoration of Tsong Khapa, the founder of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism, who passed away on the 25th of the tenth month in Tibetan calendar in 1419.
Yesterday, Tibetan monks lit butter lamps on the top of the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, Tibet, to celebrate the Butter Lamp Festival with believers gathering on the Barkhor Street in the evening.

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Thousands of believers are gathering at the Barkhor Street around the Jokhang Temple to celebrate the Butter Lamp Festival ..

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