jokhang temple is the spiritual center of tibet. everyday pilgrims from every corner of tibet trek a long distance to the temple. some of them even progress prostrate by body length to the threshold of the temple. pilgrims fuel myriad of flickering butter lamps with yak butter, or honor their deities with white scarves (kha-btags or hada) while murmuring sacred mantras to show their pieties to the buddha.
it lies at the center of the old
