Chham – The Festival of the Dancing Monks
August 29th, 2009 by mohitg | No Comments
Origin of sacred dance of Cham probably goes back to ninth century when Guru Padmasambhava introduced Buddhism in Tibet. The monk-dancers perform the iconographic and choreographic sequences as written in the dance manual; enacting the liturgical text, which is simultaneously recited by monks sitting in the orchestra on the edge of the dance area…
