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Photos: Tibetan prayers for the new year

Published 9:03 am Friday, February 12, 2016

An exile Tibetan holds multi color prayer flags called wind horse or 'lungta' to be tied on tall posts on the third day of the Tibetan New Year on Thursday in Dharmsala, India. Tibetans believe that the Buddhist prayers printed on these flags whose colors represent the five elements, earth, fire, sky, water and air, are spread on wind.
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An exile Tibetan holds multi color prayer flags called wind horse or 'lungta' to be tied on tall posts on the third day of the Tibetan New Year on Thursday in Dharmsala, India. Tibetans believe that the Buddhist prayers printed on these flags whose colors represent the five elements, earth, fire, sky, water and air, are spread on wind.
An exile Tibetan holds multi color prayer flags called wind horse or 'lungta' to be tied on tall posts on the third day of the Tibetan New Year on Thursday in Dharmsala, India. Tibetans believe that the Buddhist prayers printed on these flags whose colors represent the five elements, earth, fire, sky, water and air, are spread on wind.
An exile Tibetan ties multi-color prayer flags called wind horse or lungta on a tall pole on the third day of the Tibetan New Year in Dharmsala, India, on Thursday.

An exiled Tibetan holds prayer flags called “lungta,” or wind horse, to be tied on tall posts on the third day of the Tibetan New Year, in Dharmsala, India. Tibetans believe the Buddhist prayers printed on the flags are spread on the wind. The flags’ colors represent the five elements — earth, fire, sky, water and air.

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