The ging cham dancers. Religious dances or mask dances are called Chham. The masks represent saints and sages, male and female protective deities and legendary personages. The performance of the sacred mask dances is prelude by religious music of cymbals, drums, horns, conches and bells. The religious mask dance being sacred there is a taboo against expounding of the mystical significance of the mask dances unless one has mastered the Tantric sciences and received empowerment"s pertain to them. [Dawa Dem 8/9/2009]
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- Europeana https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/2022112/urn_axmedis_00000_obj_3fcf0f1e_cb2c_4d6e_bfb9_ea1739f62db4
