Buddhist monks perform Cham dance at the Drigung Monastery in Lhasa, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, June 9, 2021. Cham dance is a masked and costumed ritual performed by Tibetan Buddhist ...
A Buddhist Lama in Traditional attire performs during Cham dance at a monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal, Feb. 22, 2020. (Xinhua/Sulav Shrestha) KATHMANDU, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- The monks in Nepal took up ...
XINING, March 2 (Xinhua) -- The day before an annual lamp festival, the Taer Monastery in northwest China's Qinghai Province was already full of pious believers and tourists eager to catch a glimpse ...
A Tibetan Buddhist monk performs during a Cham dance ritual at the Qoide Monastery in Gonggar county of Shannan prefecture, Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region, Feb 19, 2019. Dressed in colorful ...
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 ...
At Ladakh’s Karsha Monastery, nestled in the Zanskar valley known for the famous Chadar trek, some 230 kilometres from Kargil, Buddhist monks are busy preparing for the annual monastic festival — ...