REGION: Asia
COUNTRY: Bhutan
YEAR PRINTED: 2015
VALUE: 40 ngultrum
This stamp is one of a set of seven Hindu-Buddhist mask stamps issued by Bhutan in 2015 celebrating the Atsara, a masked clown with a comical red face who wields a giant phallus at Tsechu festivals. The character combines Buddhist wisdom and joy with pranks to emphasize the importance of forgetting the self and sexuality to parody the iniquitous.
