MONGOLIA | Friday, 5 July 2013 | Views [185] | View Smaller Image
The light within: a young Monk tends lamps in a monastery in Ulaanbaatar. Despite the murder of thousands of monks and the desecration of monasteries by the Revolutionaries in the early 1920s, the practice of the religion persisted. Today upwards of 90% of Mongolians consider themselves Buddhist.
