Grand prayer festival at Kham’s Dorje Shugden Monastery
Grand Prayer Festival at Gonsa Monastery in Kham, Tibet, around 40,000 to 50,000 people attended where 4,000 to 5,000 are monks
Huge thangka left to right: Dorje Shugden, Denma Gonsa Rinpoche, Lama Tsongkhapa
18ft statue of Dorje Shugden in the Protector chapel
Thousands and thousands of monks and lay people set up tents outside the monastery to attend the festival at Gonsa Monastery
Gangchen Rinpoche visiting the monastery during the festival, thousands and thousands came to receive him
Lama Jampa Ngodup (right) escorting Gangchen Rinpoche into the monastery
Lama Michel
Lama Jampa Ngodup and Gangchen Rinpoche conducting Dorje Shugden puja in the chapel
Lama Jampa Ngodup in the Dorje Shugden chapel
Gangchen Rinpoche in the Dorje Shugden chapel
Left to right: Lama Michel, Gangchen Rinpoche, Lama Jampa Ngodup