Rare Buddha's Halo appears in China

It may be the rarest of all rainbows, only appearing when sunlight, cloud or fog, and the observers are all in a line.

So to capture the appearance of this Buddha's Halo on film is indeed a near-miracle.



The phenomenon appeared over Tianchi Lake on Mountain Tianshan in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

The rainbow is a natural phenomenon of atmospheric optics. It is formed by the diffuse reflection and diffraction of sunlight irradiating the surface of the cloud.