Tibetans of Sichuan Province’s Litang County gathered this week in order to pray for imprisoned Buddhist teacher Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, and to protest his incarceration, making offerings, praying for Rinpoche’s release, and displaying large images of both Rinpoche and the Dalai Lama. Though speakers at the event openly criticized a number of Chinese officials’ roles in Rinpoche’s imprisonment, the gathering was left undisturbed by security forces.