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Monks light butter lamps at the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Dec. 21, 2019. People of the Tibetan ethnic group lit butter lamps and prayed through ...
That's one of the scenes in Butter Lamp, a fictional short by Beijing director Hu Wei and French producer Julien Feret. Premiering in 2013, the film has won 70 awards.
Starting June 11, visitors can enter a Tibetan Buddhist shrine room with ritual horns, butter lamps and the hum of chanting monks, courtesy of a long-term loan from the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art.
[3] See interview referenced in note 1. Alice Kandell is a private collector, who for decades acquired hundreds of bronze sculptures, thangkas, textile banners, painted furniture and ritual implements ...
Believers light butter lamps at Taer Monastery in northwest China's Qinghai Province, Nov. 21, 2019. The Butter Lamp Festival celebrates the beginning of a new year on the Tibetan calendar and is ...
For this week’s entry in Hexie Farm‘s series for CDT, Crazy Crab honors the Tibetans who have burned themselves in self-immolation. In Tibetan Buddhism, butter lamps are highly symbolic and ...