Butter Lamp Festival Celebrated in Qinghai

Fantastic China | 2024-11-26 | Views：18

Believers light butter lamps at Ta'er Monastery in Xining, northwest China's Qinghai Province, Nov. 25, 20224. (Photo: China News Service/Ma Mingyan)

The 600-year-old Butter Lamp Festival celebrates the beginning of a new year on the Tibetan calendar and is an occasion to pray for happiness and good health by lighting butter lamps.

Believers light butter lamps at Ta'er Monastery in Xining, northwest China's Qinghai Province, Nov. 25, 20224. (Photo: China News Service/Ma Mingyan)

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