The ritual smoke offering to the mountain spirit of the sacred forbidden mountain Nyenpo Yurtse, lead by the king of Arkyong, traditional part of Ling Kingdom started last week end. It seem the group will soon get back home, as I got more pics from another...

Rehabilitation and renovation of Tongkyab monastery in Golok Gabde.

Rehabilitation and renovation of Tongkyab monastery in Golok Gabde.

Collect of medicinal herbs by monks specialised in Tibetan medecine from Woenpo monastery in Zachuka (Sershul district, Dege region in Kham province). སེར་ཤུལ་རྫོང་རྫ་ཆུ་ཁ་དབོན་པོ་དགོན་སྨན་པ་གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་སྨན་ལྡུམ་ཐུ་བཞིན་པའི་རྣམ་པ།

Today, people from all parts of Tibet gathered at Lhamo latso (Godesses's lake) on Nyampo Yurtse sacred mountain to make a smoke offering. Headed by the traditional King of Arkyong Boom, Chief Zamkyab, many popular leaders, tulkus and monks from Tongkayb...

Today's celebration of Buddha Shakyiamuni's teaching of the first teaching of Dharma at Kumbum monastery. This sacred dance symbolise His Holiness The Sun turning around the temple of Maitreya.

Today's competition in Tibetan language and dances in Golok Gabde.

Gathering on Nyampo Yurtse sacred mountain of all Ling Gesar's masters, bards, chiefs and heroes to discuss how to protect the environment and to make a smoke offering to the mountain spirit. Hero Gepkhu Nyima Woeser encercled by monks bards from Tongkyab...

Today, people from all parts of Tibet gathered at Lhamo latso (Godesses's lake) on Nyampo Yurtse sacred mountain to make a smoke offering. Headed by the traditional King of Arkyong Boom, Chief Zamkyab, many popular leaders, tulkus and monks from Tongkayb...