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Cham dances of Hemis: Of the skeleton, the deer and the black hat

On the occasion of Hemis Festival, Sahapedia looks at five cham dances—the Skeleton Dance, the Deer Dance, The Black Hat Dance, The Old White Man from Mongolia, and the Cham Gar—that are performed in various Buddhist monasteries across India, Tibet and Nepal on different occasions.

Endangered heritage

The two major Buddhist monasteries, Hemis and Likir in Ladakh, have refused to remove the “out of bounds” tag for…

On the smiling mountains

It was a cloudy day, as I flew over the Himalayas, but the first sight of the mountains always elicits…