Tibetan Butter Lamps Festival celebrated in London

Tibet Foundation hosted a visit by nine monks from the Drepung Gomang Monastery on Tuesday 7 December 2004 to light butter lamps and candles, and chant prayers in front of the elaborately carved altar of St James’s Church to commemorate Gaden Nga-choe

Prayers for a lama on Gaden Ngamchoe

The tent accommodating the ‘Two Months Chain Hunger Strike’ transformed into a vivid altar, with the offerings of lamps and candles on the night of ‘Gaden Ngamchoe’, illuminating the portrait of Tulku Tenzin Delek