Vast portrait of Buddha unveiled

From: The Scotsman | Date: August 9, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

CLAD in everything from traditional robes to baseball caps, thousands of Tibetan Buddhists climbed a mountain before dawn yesterday for the annual unveiling of an enormous picture of the Buddha - described as the biggest image of its kind in the world.

The unveiling of the silk tangka beside the 586-year-old Drepung Monastery came at the start of the Yoghurt Festival, a major Tibetan ...

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