photo-caption: EXILED TIBETANS PAINT LETTERS WITH BLOOD

Photo-caption: Exiled Tibetans paint letters of the word Tibet with their blood during a protest gathering in solidarity with the Tibetan immolators on the Tibetan New Year or Losar at the Tsuglakhang temple in Dharamsala on Monday. The Tibetan...

photo-caption: EXILED TIBETANS PAINT LETTERS WITH BLOOD

Photo-caption: Exiled Tibetans paint letters of the word Tibet with their blood during a protest gathering in solidarity with the Tibetan immolators on the Tibetan New Year or Losar at the Tsuglakhang temple in Dharamsala on Monday. The Tibetan government-in-exile has called upon Tibetans to forgo celebrations for the new Water Snake year as a mark of respect for Tibetans who have immolated themselves since 2009.

City Air News photo: Shyam Sharma

Photo-caption: Exiled Tibetan Buddhist monks usher in the Tibetan New Year or Losar with ritual prayers on the open terrace of the Tsuglagkhang temple in Dharamsala on Monday.
City Air News photo: Shyam Sharma

Photo-caption: Exiled Tibetans participate in a protest gathering in solidarity with the Tibetan immolators on the Tibetan New Year or Losar at the Tsuglakhang temple in Dharamsala. A coffin draped in a Tibetan flag representing the self-immolators who succumbed to their burns is placed infront of a portrait of the spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Monday.
City Air News photo: Shyam Sharma

Photo-caption: Exiled Tibetan Girls returned from temple after Tibetan New Year or Losar  prayers at Tsuglagkhang temple in Dharamsala on Monday.
City Air News photo: Shyam Sharma

Date: 
Monday, February 11, 2013