Video duration: 304 seconds
Global video hits: 12986
Video taken at Paro Tsechu (religious festival) in the Himalayan Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan, 2006
If you want to see more photos of Bhutan, I have a Webshots album at http://community.web shots.com/slideshow? ID=549955413
Video duration: 22 seconds
Global video hits: 2201
Another amazing ancient religious dance from Bhutan - A vision seen by 15th century nun in which she saw the attendants of Guru Rimpoche performing a dance. Dancers in animal masks and colourful costumes
Video duration: 253 seconds
Global video hits: 203
Shinje Yab Yum - Dance of the Lord of Death and his Consort - Costume: Brocade long dress, buffalo mask; These protectors of the religion render demons powerless and offer them to the mandala. They lead all the beings who revere the Doctrine, to actions which will lead to the happiness of delivery from different rebirths or to a good rebirth.
Video duration: 14 seconds
Global video hits: 1237
The annual religious festival in Thimphu, capital of Bhutan. The black hat dancers assume the role of yogis with the power to subdue and create life. An important dance that is also used in purification ceremonies during the construction of Dzongs, temples, chortens.
This dance depicts how two princess whose husbands went off to war flirted with a jester and then got their noses cut off by their returning husbands as punishment! (30 Sept 06)
No último dia do Tsechu de Paro, uma enorme Tangkha é desenrolada e cobre todo o prédio. Os fiéis fazem fila para tocar e passar embaixo do pano que tem três séculos de idade.
Video duration: 205 seconds
Global video hits: 981
Paro dzong and Taktshang Goemba. Monks in Punakha dzong as well as Wangdue Phodrang dzong and Trongsa dzong. Inhabitants of Monpa villages Jangbi and Kuda as well as inhabitants of Drokpa village Nimshong. Wangdichholing palace in Jakhar and Tamshing Goemba in Jakhar. Tsechu in Trashigang dzong including Brokpa visitors. Tsechu in Mongar dzong.
The 2008 Smithsonian Folklife Festival included the largest living exhibition of Bhutan's culture ever held outside of the small Himalayan country.
This is a ritual Cham dance normally performed during Tsechu, annual festivals. It was a wonderful rare opportunity to see this.
![Tsechu at Wangdue Prandong [No. 2], Bhutan (30 Sept 06)](http://img.youtube.com/vi/_zLHyhpK2Uk/2.jpg "Tsechu at Wangdue Prandong [No. 2], Bhutan (30 Sept 06)")
