Tibetan monks celebrate annual religious dance festival (8/9)

Tibetan monks perform traditional dance at the annual religious dance festival of Tashilhunpo Monastery in Shigatse of Tibet Autonomous Region on September 9, 2013. The annual festival falls on August 4 according to the Tibetan calendar. Tashilhunpo Monastery, founded in 1447, is the traditional seat of successive Panchen Lamas and one of the six big monasteries of Gelugpa in Tibet. [Photo: CNS / Li Lin]