India / Sikkim: Gumpa or 'Devil Dance' performed at a Sikkimese monastery, c. 1903

Buddhist monks performing the Gumpa or Devil Dance in Sikkim, now a landlocked Indian state nestled in the Himalayas, but until 1975 (and at the time of this photograph in 1903) an independent Buddhist kingdom ruled by a hereditary ruler called the chogyal.

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