REGION: Asia
COUNTRY: Mongolia
YEAR PRINTED: 1984
VALUE: 4 tugrik
This stamp forms part of a set of eight issued by Mongolia in 1984 to celebrate the traditional Tsam Hindo-Buddhist masked dance. This is one of several sets of Mongolian postage stamps featuring Tsam masks issued after the fall of Communism. This stamp depicts Ulan Jamsran, the Mongolian god of war.
REGION: Asia
COUNTRY: Mongolia
YEAR PRINTED: 1984
VALUE: 40 tugrik
This stamp forms part of a set of eight issued by Mongolia in 1984 to celebrate the traditional Tsam Hindo-Buddhist masked dance. This is one of several sets of Mongolian postage stamps featuring Tsam masks issued after the fall of Communism. This stamp depicts a deity called Ulan Yadam.
REGION: Asia
COUNTRY: Mongolia
YEAR PRINTED: 1984
VALUE: 50 tugrik
This stamp forms part of a set of eight issued by Mongolia in 1984 to celebrate the traditional Tsam Hindo-Buddhist masked dance. This is one of several sets of Mongolian postage stamps featuring Tsam masks issued after the fall of Communism. This stamp depicts Lkham, the Mongol version of the Hindu god Kali. Lkham is the patron god of the Tibetan people and the wife of Yama, god of death. Originally, she brought plagues and famine, but in Mongolian lore she cures diseases.
REGION: Asia
COUNTRY: Mongolia
YEAR PRINTED: 1984
VALUE: 60 tugrik
This stamp forms part of a set of eight issued by Mongolia in 1984 to celebrate the traditional Tsam Hindo-Buddhist masked dance. This is one of several sets of Mongolian postage stamps featuring Tsam masks issued after the fall of Communism. This stamp depicts Yama (Damdom-Tshoijoo), god of the dead and the underworld. Yama decides which of the dead ascend to paradise or are punished below. He is the most important of the Mongolian gods.
REGION: Asia
COUNTRY: Mongolia
YEAR PRINTED: 1984
VALUE: 80 tugrik
This stamp forms part of a set of eight issued by Mongolia in 1984 to celebrate the traditional Tsam Hindo-Buddhist masked dance. This is one of several sets of Mongolian postage stamps featuring Tsam masks issued after the fall of Communism. This stamp depicts Ochirvaani, the most powerful of all gods, who punishes sinners with lightning bolts and four poisoned tusks.
REGION: Asia
COUNTRY: Mongolia
YEAR PRINTED: 1991
VALUE: 140 tugrik
This stamp forms part of a set of eight issued by Mongolia in 1991 to celebrate the traditional Tsam Hindo-Buddhist masked dance. This stamp depicts the Old White Man, a god of predating the Hindo-Buddhist conversion of Mongolia and considered the god of the land, protector of livestock and agriculture.
REGION: Asia
COUNTRY: Mongolia
YEAR PRINTED: 1991
VALUE: 2 tugrik
This stamp forms part of a set of eight issued by Mongolia in 1991 to celebrate the traditional Tsam Hindo-Buddhist masked dance. This stamp depicts Namsrai, the god of wealth and protector of the poor. The god was probably adapted from the Hindu god Vaishravana.
REGION: Asia
COUNTRY: Mongolia
YEAR PRINTED: 1991
VALUE: 35 tugrik
This stamp forms part of a set of eight issued by Mongolia in 1991 to celebrate the traditional Tsam Hindo-Buddhist masked dance. This stamp depicts Jamsran, the war god and defender of Buddhism. Unlike most Mongol gods, this one does not derive from Hinduism and may represent an god of indigenous mythology.
REGION: Asia
COUNTRY: Mongolia
YEAR PRINTED: 1991
VALUE: 4 tugrik
This stamp forms part of a set of eight issued by Mongolia in 1991 to celebrate the traditional Tsam Hindo-Buddhist masked dance. This stamp depicts Bar, a tiger god who lives under the earth and guards treasure for his master, the god Yama.
REGION: Asia
COUNTRY: Mongolia
YEAR PRINTED: 1991
VALUE: 45 tugrik
This stamp forms part of a set of eight issued by Mongolia in 1991 to celebrate the traditional Tsam Hindo-Buddhist masked dance. This stamp depicts Mangus, the grey old man and one of the local lords. This enigmatic character undoubtedly predates the Hindo-Buddhist conversion of Mongolia and represents a fierce shamanic character.
