How a Tibetan couple’s stunning wedding photos went viral in China

The couple is seen on fancy bikes and cars, drinking coffee at a Starbucks and then come contrasting images of them visiting a monastery and praying in their traditional garbs.

Gerong Phuntsok and Dawa Drolma in a Lamborghini. (Source: Zhangzishi)

According to China’s official state news agency Xinuha, 80 percent of the country’s WeChat users have seen the couple’s photos. BBC‘s monitor in Hong Kong reported that the couple’s photo shoot became a major topic on China’s Twitter-like social networking platform Weibo.

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Gerong Phuntsok and Dawa Drolma praying in a monastery. (Source: Zhangzishi)

Phuntsok, when asked about the overwhelming response, said he never predicted such popularity. “Maybe we represented thousands of young people from ethnic minorities, who left their hometowns to pursue a ‘modern life’ but chose to return to tradition after feeling a void in the heart. I think we found an echo with other web users,” Phuntsok says.

The immense popularity of the couple’s photos comes as a proof of China’s changing and  more embracing attitudes towards Tibet and it’s nationals.