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Tibetan monks celebrate Great Prayer Festival
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-02-06 12:50

Tibetan monks celebrate Great Prayer Festival
 
Footprints carved in wood, which locals believe were made by a worshipper who prayed at the same spot for decades, are seen at a monastery near Tongren, Qinghai province February 5, 2009. Local Tibetan monks and pilgrims gather to celebrate Monlam, or Great Prayer Festival, one of the most important festivals in Tibetan Buddhism. [Agencies]

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