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 ...

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 ...

The annual cham dance at a monastery in Qonggyai county, Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region. The dance, called "cham" in the Tibetan language, is believed to ward off disaster and ghost and ...

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 ...

The Ladakh Festival celebrates the ancient traditions preserved by the locals. One of those traditions is the 'Cham' dance, a spiritual dance performed by a select number of monks after days of ...

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 — ...

The cham dance is performed in this monastery in the Himalayas the day before the Tibetan New Year, known as Losar, evoking Mahakala to remove obstacles and cleanse the place of negative energy.