New Year ceremony at Nechung Frame:none

New Year ceremony at Nechung Frame:noneNechung monastery at the dance held early in the Tibetan New Year when the oracle foretells coming events as a preliminary to the start of the Great Prayer the following day. Drepung Monastery can be seen in the background. Officials can be seen entering the courtyard to take their seats in the background on the left. Crowds seated in front of photographer looking towards the main entrance of the temple. Drepung Monastery can be seen in the background

Behind the compound a tall building

and a thobe (long shirt) topped with a cartridge belt and khanjar (dagger)

with a young man standing beside it holding a spear

In the background a large clump of bushes grows between sand dunes

Portrait of an elderly bearded man

with two men on rocks in the foreground

Falconer with a falcon on his arm

wrestles with its quarry

the carving is now understood by scholars to represent a supernatural crocodilian

some of them are missing masts

brocade holy water bottles and felt and leather boots

flanked by his wife and killed enemies