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Tibetan New Year: A sombre affair
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An ethnic Tibetan woman prostrates as she prays near the Labrang Monastery in Xiahe county, Gansu Province. Reuters/Carlos Barria
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Monks gather to pray at the Labrang monastery before the Tibetan New Year in Xiahe county, Gansu Province. Reuters/Carlos Barria
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Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama leads a prayer session on the first day of the Tibetan New Year at the Tsuglakhang temple in Dharmsala. AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia
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Tibetans, living in exile in India, shout anti-Chinese slogans during a protest near the Chinese embassy in New Delhi. PTI Photo by Kamal Kishore
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An exiled Tibetan woman prays as others shout slogans against the Chinese government outside the Chinese Embassy on the first day of the Tibetan New Year, in New Delhi. AP Photo/ Manish Swarup
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Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama (R) greets a devotee as he leaves after leading a prayer session on the first day of the Tibetan New Year at the Tsuglakhang temple in Dharmsala. AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia
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Exiled Tibetan monks feed birds at the Boudhanath stupa on the first day of the Tibetan New Year in Kathmandu, Nepal. AP Photo/Binod Joshi
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Exiled Tibetan students have slogans painted on their bodies as they take part in a day-long hunger strike on the first day of the Tibetan New Year, at a Buddhist temple in New Delhi. AP Photo/Kevin Frayer
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A Tibetan woman prays at a Tibetan monastery during the first day of New Year or Losar in Kathmandu. Reuters/Navesh Chitrakar
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A monk reacts as he participates in a debate as part of Tibetan New Year celebrations at a temple in Langmusixiang, Sichuan Province. Reuters/Carlos Barria
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Tibetan monks sit with a portrait of their spiritual leader, The Dalai Lama, in front of the legislature on a hunger strike in protest against the Chinese government, in Taipei, Taiwan. AP Photo/Wally Santana
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