CANDLES LIT AT MONASTERY IN BHUTAN'S CAPITAL OF THIMPHU, 2003-08-22 (photo)

An attendent lights candles at a monastery in the Bhutanese capital Thimphu, August 22, 2003. For years, the tiny mountain nation of Bhutan, called "Druk Yul" or the Land of the Thunder Dragon, was considered the last Shangri-La, untouched by the winds of modernisation sweeping the rest of the world. But four years after the country of 700,000 people tucked between India and China opened its doors to satellite television and the Internet, Bhutan is at a cultural crossroads between tradition and modernity. Picture taken August 22, 2003 TO MATCH FEATURE BHUTAN-CULTURE REUTERS/ Kamal Kishore PK/RCS