Tibetan Buddhist mask dance performed to celebrate New Year

Tibetan Buddhist mask dance performed to celebrate New Year

Monks watch a Tibetan ritual Cham or mask dance at Labrang Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism, in Xiahe County in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in China's Gansu Province on Feb. 21, 2016, to celebrate Losar, the Tibetan New Year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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