South face of Potala with appliqué festival tangkas, Sertreng Ceremony. Copyright Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford 2001.59.8.94.1 Unknown
Crowds gathering outside Zhöl (zhol) village during the Sertreng Ceremony (tshogs mchod ser sbreng) on the 30th day of the second month of the Tibetan calendar. Note that the image is reversed and needs to be flipped left to right. Two silk appliqué festival tangkas (thang ka), or göku (gos sku), adorn the south face of the Potala’s White Palace. The tangkas, featuring the Buddha surrounded
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