When I Dance, I'm Not Dancing: Charya Nritya
A long conversation about charya nritya, the dance as meditation, and what happens to the dancer during it.
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Interview · The Spiritual Context Podcast · 2026When I Dance, I'm Not Dancing: Charya Nritya
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Meet Prajwal Ratna Vajracharya.
Charya Nritya
Prajwal Ratna Vajracharya
Tantric Buddhist priest from the Kathmandu valley and a ritual master of charya nritya, the sacred dance of Newar Vajrayana, in which body, speech and mind are the means by which a practitioner embodies an enlightened deity. Newar Buddhism is a tradition of its own, kin to Tibetan Buddhism as Vajrayana but not the same thing.
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