According to Tibetan Buddhism, if the soul doesn’t attain liberation in Chönyid Bardo, it enters Sidpa Bardo, sees karmic realms, and is reborn in a new form by the 49th day ...

The skull. For many in the Western world, it’s an instant symbol of danger, a pirate’s flag snapping in the wind, or the ...

The Rubin Museum Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room is reopening at the Brooklyn Museum, where it features both familiar treasures and some not seen in 10 years.

The Rubin Museum Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room, one of the institution’s most beloved installations, will be on view inside the Brooklyn Museum’s Arts of Asia galleries as part of a six-year ...

It features 42 peaceful and 58 wrathful deities, whom Tibetan Buddhist adherents are said to visualize as emanations of their own "Buddha-nature." Visualization practice helps devotees master feelings ...

Wrathful deities are invoked in a Tibetan Buddhist dance in a monastery in north India Exclude from home page Curated Content | March 3, 2025 Read the full story: Associated Press Wearing colorful ...

Wrathful deities are invoked in a Tibetan Buddhist dance in a monastery in north India THE ASSOCIATED PRESS March 2, 2025 at 10:45 JST ...

Central to the performance is Mahakala, the powerful protector of the Dharma in Tibetan Buddhism. Towering above the dancers, the figure of Mahakala is depicted with a crown of skulls and a bowl of ...

Wearing colourful robes and fearsome masks, monks high stepped and spun around a sandstone courtyard to the sound of drums, cymbals and long horns.

Monks belonging to the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism walk with ceremonial drums in a procession at the Palpung Sherabling monastery near Baijnath, India, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025.

Behind them towered the wrathful Buddhist diety Mahakala with his crown of skulls, carrying a bowl of blood and the legendary weapon Vajra. The cham dance is performed in this monastery in the ...