POV498076: Tibetan Buddhism (Tantric B., Vajrayana): Monks (note front monk holding bell & vajra) chanting at fire ritual/ceremony/puja chinsek (here dedicated to Jigjed=Tara Chenmo) where offerings are passed into sacrifical fire to pacify the deities visualized in the fire Thiksey Gompa (Gelugpa order monastery), Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, Himalayas, India / Bridgeman Images
POV498080: Tibetan Buddhism (Tantric B., Vajrayana): Priest/monk using small ceremonial double-sided hand drum (damaru) and hand bell (dril bu) during fire ritual/ceremony/puja chinsek (here dedicated to Jigjed=Tara Chenmo) where offerings are passed into sacrifical fire to pacify the deities visualized in the fire, Thiksey Gompa (Gelugpa order monastery), Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, Himalayas, India / Bridgeman Images
POV498095: Qutb Minar tower (13th cent.,most perfect ancient example of minar to exist anywhere, covered in carvings and deeply inscribed verses from Koran, highest stone tower in India, 72.5m) seen through arch of 12th cent. Quwwatul-Islam Masjid (earliest extant mosque in India) Indo-Islamic architecture, Qutb Minar complex, Unesco World Heritage Site Delhi, India / Bridgeman Images