Virlana Tkacz
Virlana Tkacz, the recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships, is director of the Yara Arts Group in New York. Since 1996 she has worked with Buryat artists to create theater pieces based on Buryat stories, poetry, and songs.
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Books By Virlana Tkacz
Siberian Shamanism
By Virlana Tkacz
$19.95
East of Lake Baikal in Siberia live the Buryats, an indigenous people who practice a unique blend of Tibetan Buddhism and shamanism. This book documents a complete Buryat Shanar, the ceremony in which a new shaman first contacts his ancestral spirits and receives his power. Includes dozens of full-color photographs.