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This picture taken on March 1, 2018 shows Tibetan Buddhist monks carrying a giant thangka for the unveiling ceremony during Monlam, otherwise known as the Great Prayer Festival of Losar, the Tibetan New Year, at the Rongwo Monastery, in Tongren County, Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, on the Qinghai- Tibet plateau. Scores of monks and men heaved the enormous thangka – an image of Buddha painted on silk, rolled up in a tight cylinder while in transit – through the packed streets around Rongwo Monastery in China's northwestern province of Qinghai for a religious ritual wrapping up Losar, the Tibetan new year. (Photo by Johannes Eisele/AFP Photo)
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