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Profane/Worldly Drama

Bhutanese communities have dramas and operatic performances, in which the performers often wear masks. While most have a spiritual or religious message and content, there are also dance-dramas such as Handsome Men and Beautiful Women are performance which tell worldly stories and convey a ordinary human messages. There are many dance dramas by clown figure for entertainment through humour and satire.

  • འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་གར་འཆམ། (Dzongkha, Tibetan script, Original)
    • > Profane/Worldly Drama (English, Latin script, Translation)
    • > 'jig rten gyi gar 'cham (Dzongkha, Latin script, THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
    • > jik ten gyi gar cham (Dzongkha, Latin script, THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
Subject ID: S7430