Weird performance by Lionman, a Tibetan in Dharamsala, India

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Tsering Dorjee aka Lionman of Dharamshala performs during Miss Tibet contest in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh. Tsering, aged 27, was born in the Kham region of Tibet, near the capital Lhasa. When Tsering Dorjee (AKA the Lion Man) was a small boy in Tibet, he was a free spirit, un-contained by any limits or boundaries. Anyone who watches his flamboyant one-man shows in Dharamshala, northern India, today would concur that the same still holds true. Tsering's dance and improvisation performances are full of intense energy, visual creativity and freedom of movement, and that word - 'freedom' - comes up time and again when the Lion Man is around. Like many other Tibetans refugees, he journeyed across the Himalayas - in Tsering's case, with his parents and 37 others. He made the difficult and da