Three Taiwanese Buddhist press their palms together in prayer while listening to Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, recite blessings at Taiwan's oldest lamasery, the Kungke Temple in southern Tainan, March 23. The Tibetan Buddhist god-king was scheduled to preside over three major ceremonies during his unprecedented six-day visit to Taiwan, which communist China has attacked as a politically motivated effort to split Tibet and Taiwan from China.

TAIWAN DALAI