Deprung Debates

You haven't seen anything until you've seen hundreds of Tibetan monks debating. The debates at the Deprung monastery were one of the weirdest, most bizarrely thrilling spectacles we have seen in Tibet. You might expect monk debates to be a low-key intellectual pursuit - you would be wrong. They scream, they yell, they swing their arms and clap their hands in their opponents face. This may sound threatening at first but it isn't at all. They all take it with a grain of humor.