Butter-lamps

Butter-lamps are lit at Ba Choede monastery in Bathang county town, Sichuan, for Phuntsog Wangyal, a Khampa from Bathang, who died on March 30. The images show Phuntsog Wangyal, one of the most important figures in Tibetan contemporary history, as a young man with the 10th Panchen Lama and later at his shrine at home in Beijing. A day before his death a Tibetan nun self-immolated outside the same monastery in the first self-immolation in Bathang.