Central Asian arts: Quick Facts

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A Mongolian throat singer in traditional attire plays a morin khuur fiddle and sings into a microphone on stage at Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China.

Tibetan Buddhist monk reading with handbell in Lamayuru Monastery, Ladakh, India

Tibetan ritual objects

Tibetan 'cham drama

colossal Buddha at Bamiyan, Afghanistan

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