Ongkor Festival

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Monks playing the Tibetan horn during the Tibetan summer festival Ongkor, 2016
Traditional Tibetan dancing in fields during the Ongkor summer festival, 2016

The Ongkor Festival (Standard Tibetan: འོང་སྐོར་, 'ong skor, or Serkor (སེར་སྐོར་) in some dialects) is one of the most important Tibetan festivals of the Tibetan lunar year. Ongkor is usually held at the end of summer.[1] It is a national intangible cultural heritage, popular in Lhasa, Shigatse, Shannan and other places in Tibet.[2]

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