#tsam dance

[sellos]

[ninewhitebanners]

Coral and gold dancing mask of representing Jamsaren. Normally you don't expect the guys wearing crowns made out of skulls to be friendly, but Jamsaren is a protective deity who destroys evil by being even scarier than it is. Dancers representing Jamsaren are common in tsam, a ritual dance done at Buddhist holidays and festivals.

[presentpasts]

Masked costume for the Tsam dance, textile and papier-mache, 20th century, Mongolia. At the Museum Aan de Stroom, Antwerp.

[andrewthomashuang]

Early inspiration for "Solipsist" 

[mymongol]