Figure 27. Dancing Vajravrh-Dorje Pagmo. Red figure. Nepal. Himalayas. Courtesy of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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Figure 28. Vajravrh. Central Tibet. Himalayas 1.LACMAM74_106_1. Courtesy of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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Figure 29. Kl dancing on Shiva in order to awaken him. Courtesy of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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Figure 30. “Durg Dancing.” Central India. Gurjara-Pratihara. Tenth century CE. British Museum, Oriental Antiquities. 1872.7-1.82. Courtesy of the British Museum. Photograph by Gregory L. Dexter.

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Figure 31. Dancing Vajravrh—Vajrayogin. Central Tibet. Himalayas. Courtesy of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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Figure 32. Design motifs from early Zhou bronzes of the first half of the first millennium BCE. From Hentze and Kim 1943: 32–33.

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Figure 33. Yao Tapestry, owned by Eli Alberts. Area encompassing Vietnam and South China. Yao representation of different life-cycle rituals, beginning with birth and ending with death. There are twelve figures in the top row, six male and six female. Birth scene in the upper left of tapestry.

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