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Fire offering ceremony held to pray for peace, harmony in Tibet (4)

（Xinhua）  08:42, March 28, 2013  

Photo taken on March 26, 2013 shows the tributes of a fire offering ceremony at the Gandan Monastery in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. The fire offering ceremony is a special ceremony in the Tibetan Tantric Buddhism. It is a sacrificial ritual of divinity worshiping in which believers burn the tributes, crops, tree branches and incantation tallies to pray for peace and harmony.


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（Editor：MaXi、Yao Chun）

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