BAIJNATH, India (AP) — Wearing colorful robes and fearsome masks, the monks high stepped and spun around around the sandstone courtyard to the sound of drums, cymbals and long horns. Behind them ...

A monk belonging to the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism wears a mask as he performs a ritual dance called Cham at the Palpung Sherabling monastery near Baijnath, India, ...

It’s situated near the north Indian town of Baijnath in Himachal Pradesh, and belongs to the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. Some of its monks come from exiled Tibetan families ...