The beginning of the Shinjé Yapyum Cham.
One of the most common sacred mask dances performed during religious festivals in Bhutan is the Shinjé Yapyum Cham. The dance is often the first mask dance performed for a festival’s program. Although known as Shinjé Yapyum, or male and female lord of death, it represents the male and female Yamāntaka deities. Yamāntaka is the destroyer of death, not the lord of death, and is among the most
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