Filled with Awe
This family had made a pilgrimage to Drepung Monastery from a distant village. You can see from their faces that they will remember this experience for the rest of their lives.
There were many local people there as well, scurrying from butter lamp to butter lamp with their ghee filled thermos, adding fuel to the burning lamps, spinning the prayer wheels, burning branches of evergreens: all a manifestation of faith and prayer.
Although it looks as it the man in the foreground has both arms in the sleeves of his coat, it is still the custom for men to use only one sleeve of their coat and let the other shoulder be uncovered. I’ve seen old photos and read accounts of travelers in Tibet which show and state that the men wore no clothing under these heavy coats. Their arm and part of their chest would be bare to the snow and freezing temperatures even during long periods of being outdoors such as traveling with caravans. How did they do it???
I noticed many men who still wore their outer coat in this fashion, but they wore a shirt as well.