Labrang Monastery at Heihe, Gansu, China. Missed Opportunity ! I had planned to arrive in time for the Monlam Festival - but mixed up my Gregorian and Tibetan calendars and had missed it by two weeks - doh ! I'll return another time for sure. With that initial excitement, and motivation for visiting the monastery, deflated I decided I just wanted to make the best of it - and Labrang was so much fun and so interesting that not once did I feel depressed with my having missed th
