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As a small landlocked Himalayan kingdom, Bhutan remained sovereign and self-sufficient but unknown to the outside world for most of its existence until the middle the 20th century. The country's rich culture heritage and the environment has remained almost totally contaminated. Buddhism influences the daily life and strength like no other, one can experience Living Buddhism in Bhutan.

Bhutan is the abode of the gods, and home of the immortals in the Himalayas. In addition to the majesty and grandeur of the nature, has a special environment where communion with the divine was possible through contemplation and meditation. Therefore, since time immemorial, ascetics, scholars, philosophers and pilgrims have been drawn irresistibly to these remote and rugged mountains in their personal quest for wisdom, inspiration, loneliness and happiness. For centuries, the place has been blessed by these people with an invaluable spiritual legacy that makes the place conducive to meditation.

Dances and Religious Music

Religious dances are called 'Cham' and a large number of them. Dancers wear costumes spectacular silk yellow or brocade, often decorated with ornaments of bone craved. For certain dances, wear masks depicting animals, deities fearsome, skull and demonstrations Guru Rimpoche or humans, to dry. The masks are so heavy that protect dancers from injury by joining their heads with strips of fabric for support the mask. The dancers see through the mouth opening.

The dances are based on the religious example of ordinary people giving the idea of good and bad, and God and evil which are explained through the dances and the Sentence of Death. Purification and protection of a place of evil spirits, Dance of cremation. Dance of the gods feared, Dance of Guru Rinpoche, with eight events, Black magic hat dance performance, dance and the dog deer hunting, dance moral princes and princesses and Ngachham famous Dramitse (drum dance). His name and fame spread as widely Dramitse Ngachham because the dance was originally composed Dramitse Monastery in eastern Bhutan. Dance masks are the faces of the 16 animals representing the 58 faces and 42 wrathful deities smooth. (Zhithro dhampir Rigya). It is believed that anyone who witnessed the dance would receive eternal peace and prosperity, when ultimately transforms his soul in this temporal existence. Originality of Ngachham is very well preserved and practiced today in Dramitse monastery under the guidance of His Eminence Abbotship and Sungtruel Rinpoche.

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