photo-caption: 29th Birthday of spiritual leader the 17th Karmapa

Tibetans monks feast on the occasion of 29th Birthday of spiritual leader the 17th Karmapa on Thursday at Gyuto Monastery, near Dharamsala. The birthday of the spiritual leader was kept a low key affair owing to death of a Tibetan religious leader Sharamapa Rinpoche and the spate of self immolation in Tibet.

City Air News photo: Shyam Sharma, Dharamsala.