pictures from lhasa, part 2

Monks debating at Sera monastery...a very noisy, animated event. They debate every day. Notice the young monk on the right taking pictures with his cell phone.
We saw Natalie Portman walking down the streets of Lhasa...it's hard to tell, but you can see hte back of her walking away. We were pretty impressed.
Sara and I took a rickshaw back to the hotel one evening, and our driver prompted us to stop and take a nighttime photo in front of the Potala.
A sample of some offerings given to the Buddha: these scarves, yak butter candles, money, and bowls of water. These kinds of offerings were everywhere in every monastery we visited.
Pilgrims prostrating and bowing in front of the Jokhang monastery. They bow down 100,000 times, over the course of several days.