![The Johkang Temple is lit up by butter lamps in the evening of Butter Lamp Festival, which is held on the 25th day of the 10th month of the Tibetan calendar every year.[Photo/China Tibet Online]](./W020111222569405005049.jpg)
The Johkang Temple is lit up by butter lamps in the evening of Butter Lamp Festival, which is held on the 25th day of the 10th month of the Tibetan calendar every year.[Photo/China Tibet Online]
![A monk is lighting up butter lamps on the roof of the Johkang Temple. [Photo/Xinhua]](./W020111222569405005821.jpg)
A monk is lighting up butter lamps on the roof of the Johkang Temple. [Photo/Xinhua]
Butter Lamp Festival is an increasingly noted Tibetan festival for tourists from home and abroad, and its evening offers a visual feast of butter lamps that everyone cannot miss.
Tibetan pilgrims celebrate the traditional Butter Lamp Fesival by gathering in front of the Jokhang Temple, prostrating in prayer and begging for a good fortune.
With litten butter lamps, the entire Jokhang Temple is bathed in festivity, from the rich smell of butter to flickering lights.
The festival, which is held on the 25th day of the 10th month of the Tibetan calendar, commemorates Tsong Khapa, the founder of the Geluk sect of Tibetan Buddhism.
