Glimpse of the kitchen in a Tibetan monastery

Photo shows a Tibetan monk boils tea to make the butter tea in the monastery's kitchen. 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]