The monastic kitchen often provide yak butter tea during the routine sutra-chanting assembly in the morning and afternoon in the main hall of a monastery. The major product of a monastic kitchen might be the yak-butter tea, sweet Tibetan tea and Zanba (highland barley power mixed with yak butter). Thus, butter casks and tea kettles are the most popular kitchen wares. [Photo/China Tibet Online] |
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