Xiahe: Soul Rhythms
Beautiful, bewitching and plain baffling at times, the Great Prayer Festival of Monlam is hard to beat for sheer spiritual energy. Graham Bond gets caught up in the excitement
We may be in the middle of one of the most intensely spiritual festivals of the Tibetan calendar but 11-year-old Xiao Ji has money on his mind. "Hmm, from England?" he muses as he helps me on to his creaky wooden stool. "The English have pounds – and those little [ read more ]
