Sikkim

Sikkim's Losar and Losoong festivals, tied to the Tibetan and Bhutia lunar calendars, are marked by masked Cham dances performed by monks in monastery courtyards — ritual theatre rather than public spectacle, open to visitors who understand the difference.

Thangka painting and carpet weaving continue in the same monastic and village workshops that have supplied Sikkim's temples for generations, largely unchanged by the tourism that now passes through Gangtok.