chos-kyi-rgyal-po
dancer
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role in Tibetan ’cham
- In Central Asian arts: Buddhist monastic dance
…impressive of all is the Choskyi-rgyal-po (King of the Religion), who wears a mask fashioned after the head of a bull, which is emblematic of the aspect of the deity that vanquishes the Lord of the Dead. It is this dancer who dismembers an effigy of a corpse and scatters…
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