Tibetans believe both the negative and positive things done during Losar, the Tibetan New Year celebration, reverberate through the year to come. Here, Buddhist monks from the Tsurphu Monastery near Lhasa chase away bad spirits with a dance honoring the dharmapala divinity.(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Tibet Embraces the New Year," January 2000, National Geographic magaz...
From "BBC News":http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5303252.stmThe Bach Archiv foundation said that "technically highly demanding, these organ works document the extraordinary virtuoso skills of the young Bach as well as his efforts to master the most ambitious and complex pieces of the entire organ repertoire".How we take our modern, technological age for granted, when virtually anything ...