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Fearsome masks and sacred steps: Inside a Tibetan cham dance
The dancers emerged two at a time from behind a printed yellow curtain, each dressed in elaborate, colourful robes and fearsome masks. The masks, crafted to represent wrathful deities, mythical ...
AP PHOTOS: Wrathful deities are invoked in a Tibetan Buddhist dance in a monastery in north India
A statue of Mahakala, a wrathful Buddhist deity, is wheeled out as monks belonging to the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan ...
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AP PHOTOS: Wrathful deities are invoked in a Tibetan Buddhist dance in a monastery in north India
BAIJNATH, India (AP) — Wearing colorful robes and fearsome masks, the monks high stepped and spun around around the sandstone courtyard to the sound of drums, cymbals and long horns. Behind them ...