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GUESTBOOK"In the Hemis festival, which is dedicated to Padmasambhava, what the visitor can observe is a series of scenes in which the lamas, robed in gowns of rich, brightly colored brocade and sporting masks sometimes benign and sometimes bizarrely hideous, parade in solemn dance round the huge flag-pole in the center of the courtyard, to the plaintive melody of the shawm, the moan of the eleven-foot horns, the boom of drums and the clash of cymbals. The solemnity is varied by comic interludes in which the dancers in the guise of skeletons bound into the arena, performing grotesquely agile gymnastics." - Ladakh-Crossroads of High Asia by Janet Rizvi pg 232-233.
This album has 41 photos in total.
Album was created 2003-07-09.
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