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What Archaeologists Are Uncovering About the Buddha in His Legendary Nepali Hometown
Shortly after dawn, more than 200 monks from an order of Tibetan exiles carry carefully bundled scriptures and 108 gold-gilt ...
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Fearsome masks and sacred steps: Inside a Tibetan cham dance
Central to the performance is Mahakala, the powerful protector of the Dharma in Tibetan Buddhism. Towering above the dancers, the figure of Mahakala is depicted with a crown of skulls and a bowl of ...
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AP PHOTOS: Wrathful deities are invoked in a Tibetan Buddhist dance in a monastery in north India
Behind them towered the wrathful Buddhist diety Mahakala with his crown of skulls, carrying a bowl of blood and the legendary weapon Vajra. The cham dance is performed in this monastery in the ...
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AP PHOTOS: Wrathful deities are invoked in a Tibetan Buddhist dance in a monastery in north India
Behind them towered the wrathful Buddhist diety Mahakala with his crown of skulls, carrying a bowl of blood and the legendary weapon Vajra. The cham dance is performed in this monastery in the ...