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In busy Xiahe, close to the Labrang monastery, youngsters in their finery prepare to celebrate Monlam, the Buddist New Year.

Labrang Monastery, Xiahe, China

Author: Michael Yamashita

©Michael Yamashita

Photo size: 17.7 Mpixels (50.6 MB uncompressed) - 3422x5169 pixels (11.4x17.2 in / 29x43.8 cm at 300 ppi)

Photo keywords: Marco Polo, China, Tibet, Labrang Monastery, kids, Children, people, Xiahe, Monlam, hat, costume

The shoes on the left, looking like those of a toddler, belong to an eighty-year-old-women, whose feet were bound when she wa...

In busy Xiahe, close to the Labrang monastery, youngsters in their finery prepare to celebrate Monlam, the Buddist New Year.

In a room of the monastery the monks prepare the paper that will be used for the Buddhist montra.