Traditional Shoton Festival celebrated in Lhasa, China’s Xizang
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Monks carry an enormous rolled-up thangka painting of Buddha at the Drepung Monastery in Lhasa, southwest China’s Xizang Autonomous Region, Aug. 12, 2026.
Celebrations marking the traditional Shoton Festival began in Lhasa on Wednesday. (Xinhua/Jiang Fan)
People view an enormous thangka painting of Buddha at the Drepung Monastery in Lhasa, southwest China’s Xizang Autonomous Region, Aug. 12, 2026.
Celebrations marking the traditional Shoton Festival began in Lhasa on Wednesday. (Xinhua/Jiang Fan)
A monk plays a ritual instrument at the Drepung Monastery in Lhasa, southwest China’s Xizang Autonomous Region, Aug. 12, 2026.
Celebrations marking the traditional Shoton Festival began in Lhasa on Wednesday. (Xinhua/Jiang Fan)
A traditional “sunning of the Buddha” ceremony is held to mark the start of the Shoton Festival at the Drepung Monastery in Lhasa, southwest China’s Xizang Autonomous Region, Aug. 12, 2026.
Celebrations marking the traditional Shoton Festival began in Lhasa on Wednesday. (Xinhua/Jiang Fan)
People view an enormous thangka painting of Buddha at the Drepung Monastery in Lhasa, southwest China’s Xizang Autonomous Region, Aug. 12, 2026.
Celebrations marking the traditional Shoton Festival began in Lhasa on Wednesday. (Xinhua/Jiang Fan)
Monks carry an enormous rolled-up thangka painting of Buddha at the Drepung Monastery in Lhasa, southwest China’s Xizang Autonomous Region, Aug. 12, 2026.
Celebrations marking the traditional Shoton Festival began in Lhasa on Wednesday. (Xinhua/Jiang Fan)
People carry an enormous rolled-up thangka painting of Buddha at the Drepung Monastery in Lhasa, southwest China’s Xizang Autonomous Region, Aug. 12, 2026.
Celebrations marking the traditional Shoton Festival began in Lhasa on Wednesday. (Xinhua/Jiang Fan)
Monks carry an enormous rolled-up thangka painting of Buddha at the Drepung Monastery in Lhasa, southwest China’s Xizang Autonomous Region, Aug. 12, 2026.
Celebrations marking the traditional Shoton Festival began in Lhasa on Wednesday. (Xinhua/Jiang Fan)
Monks carry an enormous rolled-up thangka painting of Buddha at the Drepung Monastery in Lhasa, southwest China’s Xizang Autonomous Region, Aug. 12, 2026.
Celebrations marking the traditional Shoton Festival began in Lhasa on Wednesday. (Xinhua/Jiang Fan)
People carry an enormous rolled-up thangka painting of Buddha at the Drepung Monastery in Lhasa, southwest China’s Xizang Autonomous Region, Aug. 12, 2026.
Celebrations marking the traditional Shoton Festival began in Lhasa on Wednesday.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
