Religions, 2nd prize

Buddha Basking Festival

	During the festival in a Tibetan temple in Gansu province, the three big colorful josses of the Sakyamuni, Maitreya and Master Zongkeba are basked in the air and sunlight rotationally each year. The biggest one made of silk cloth is more than 36 meters wide and nearly 100 meters long.

	1. The joss is carried to the Buddha-basking stage by a hundred lamas.

	5. On the mountainside, the giant joss expands from high to low.

	6. Colorful curtain.

	7. The joss in full view.

	8. Reciting the Confucian Classics Ceremony .

	9. When it snows, Buddha Basking Festival becomes more mysterious.

	10. Basking Buddha is the most important and solemn ceremony in the first month of lunar year.