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Monlam Festival

November 6, 2018;

A life size portrait of the Karmapa was displayed and honoured at the five-day Kagyu Monlam festival in Tibet, reports Radio Free Asia. The Monlam festival coincided with the traditional Buddhist Lhabab Duchen holiday and was held at Japa monastery in Nangchen county in Qinghai, with 4,000 monks and nuns and “tens of thousands of Tibetan lay devotees from all over Tibet” taking part.

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