MR2456 Sacred dances

These dancers are wearing a black headdress known as a ‘shanak’. Moving in time to a drum, they whirl around in circles continuously for three quarters of an hour. Annual festival of sacred dance, Trongsar monastery, 2007. Order online a photographic work of art, signed by the hand of Matthieu Ricard, buddhist monk, photographer and author. He has also been the French interpreter of His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama since 1989. Some of the photographs in his collection are printed in limited edition, signed, numbered and delivered with a certificate of authenticity.