Mural painters are invited to repaint the walls inside Trundruk Monastery during the Saga Dawa Festival. The gigantic and low pitch voice of monks chanting sutra scriptures rings at every corner of the monastery, displaying a Tibetan Buddhist ritual. [Photo/China Tibet Online] 

Mural painters are invited to repaint the walls inside Trundruk Monastery during the Saga Dawa Festival. The gigantic and low pitch voice of monks chanting sutra scriptures veils at every corner of the monastery, displaying a Tibetan Buddhist ritual. [Photo/China Tibet Online] 

Sculptor Jimi from Lhasa is invited to sculpt Nyingma guardians for the Trundruk Monastery during the Saga Dawa Festival. Jimi, 29-year-old young artist from a respectable sculpture arts family, started to learn Tibetan Buddhist statues at a very early age and has completed making cores of Buddhist statues independently. [Photo/China Tibet Online] 

A craftsman works on a wooden bowl in Ma Ma Menba Township in southwestern Cuona County, Lhoka Prefecture. Menba people have been well-known for their unique ethnic handicraft of woooen bowl making. In the past years, wooden bowl production has become an important way of increasing local people's income.  [Photo/China Tibet Online] 

A craftswoman weaves bamboo baskets at home in Ma Ma Menba Township in southwestern Cuona County, Lhoka Prefecture. Menba people have been well-known for their unique handicraft of bamboo weaving. In the past years, bamboo handicrafts have become an important way of increasing the local people's income.  [Photo/China Tibet Online] 

18-year-old Tsering Yangzong (L1) and more young people start to take part in the pulu weaving industry in Zhanang, Lhoka Prefecture, widely known for the reputation of quality pulu products. Pulu is the traditional Tibetan wool fabric, used mainly for making Tibetan carpets, curtains, robes or clothes.   [Photo/China Tibet Online] 

 Veteran pulu tailor Kharma Palden (L) instructs his disciple to make Tibetan pulu clothes in a tailor's in Zhanang, Lhoka Prefecture, widely known for the reputation of quality pulu products. Kharma Palden is very happy for the sustained inheritance and development of Tibetan ethnic pulu tailorship in the past years. [Photo/China Tibet Online]

 
Tsering Palden, an experience pulu tailor, sews pulu clothes while sitting on a Tibetan carpet in the tailor's in Zhanang, Lhoka Prefecture, widely known for the reputation of quality pulu products. Tsering says that nowadays more customers come for tailored pulu robes and clothes, but in the old times pulu products were only luxuries for a few people in the upper-class.[Photo/China Tibet Online]