Shoton Festival 2015 - the ceremony of unfolding a huge Thangka Buddha portrait at Drepung Monastery

This video, the ceremony of unfolding a huge Thangka Buddha portrait at Drepung Monastery, is taken in the Shoton Festival on August 14, 2015. Shoton Festival is a great festival in Tibet, a celebration to mark the end of the monks’ Yarné, their hundred day summer retreat. This festival starts on the last day of the sixth month in Tibetan Calendar and lasts for a few days. “Shoton“ in Tibetan means sour milk banquet. As Tibetan operas are performed and Buddha paintings are exhibited at this time, it is als