A Tibetan child prostrates himself at the temple wall.

On one of the pictures earlier of pilgrims on the road from Mount Meili to Lhasa, I commented how how many pilgrims now are children, rather than mostly the middle-aged and elderly as in the past.

 

What has happened in Tibet that Tibetan children are so anxious to store up merit for the next life? What is so wrong now with this one?

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