Thousands of Tibetans and tourists celebrated an exhibition of giant thangka-religious images embroidered in silk-to mark the start of the annual shoton, the Tibetan word for yogurt festival, on Saturday.
A Tibetan Buddhist monk performs during a Cham dance ritual at the Qoide Monastery in Gonggar county of Shannan prefecture, Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, Feb 19, 2019.