STORIES : Tibet is Dying
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A Tibetan pilgrim inside the Drepung monastery pours a little wax as an offering to maintain the light of the candles. It is said that before the Chinese intervention, Drepung was the largest monastery in the world, with eight thousand resident monks. Lhasa, Tibet, China, 2007
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