Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism holds dharma assembly in Lhasa

Tibetan Lamas participate in the dharma assembly site in Lhasa, capital of Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, Aug 14, 2016. The Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism held a traditional dharma assembly during the weekend, drawing hundreds of thousands of believers from Tibet and elsewhere in China. This dharma assembly held by Drikung Kagyu, one of the eight minor lineages of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism, dates back more than 300 years and is held in the year of monkey in the Tibetan calendar, this year in the Drikung Valley near the Drigung Thil Monastery. [Photo/Xinhua]