Hundreds of thousands of Buddhists and tourists from home and abroad flocked to a reputed Tibetan monastery to celebrate the kick-off of the annual Shoton festival on Tuesday. The week-long event, also known as the Yogurt Banquet festival, had its routine start with a grand ceremony of "sunning of the Buddha" in the 600-year-old Drepung Monastery, the largest monastery of Tibetan Buddhism's Gelug Sect. [Photo/Tibet.cn]