The Railway to the “Roof of the World”:Wealth and Worries

摘要

＜正＞Zhaxi Wangzhag prostrated himself on a month-long pil- grimage from his remote vil- lage of Nagqu County in northern Tibet Autonomous Region to Lhasa,crawling on hands and knees and refusing to walk upright. He was fulfilling a dream and honor- ing a commitment to his father,a devout Buddhist who insisted every man in the family should perform the ritual.