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 Buddhist leader, 89, has lived in exile in India since the Chinese army’s deadly crackdown on Tibetans in 1959.

Devotees pray as a statue of the Tibetan Buddhist god Mahakala is wheeled around a courtyard at the Palpung Sherabling monastery near Baijnath, India, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Ashwini ...

Tibetans in exile are celebrating Losar, also known as the Tibetan New Year. Tibetans are welcoming the Wood Snake Year 2152 and will bidding good bye to Dragon Wood year 2151. The religion and ...

In the 1970s I was head researcher in Nassau in the Bahamas. Every year there'd be a charity auction at Government House. I bought these figures one year.

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.