Ethnic Tibetan monks display a giant "thangka", a sacred painting on cloth on a hill outside a monastery in Tongren, northwest China's Qinghai Province on Monday, on February 2, 2009. Local Tibetan monks and pilgrims gather to celebrate Monlam, or Great Prayer Festival, one of the most important festivals in Tibetan Buddhism. [China Daily]

An ethnic Tibetan monk walks in front of a giant "thangka", a sacred painting on cloth, to be displayed on a hill outside a monastery in Tongren, northwest China's Qinghai Province on Monday, on February 2, 2009. [China Daily]