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The Kingdom of Bhutan 不丹王国 (Spring 2013)
chin:
More mask dancers.
chin:
One both days, people lining up to reach the front wall of the temple, to go under the fierce looking god or the tangka, for blessing. They generally form two lines - one for women and children and one for men.
Old people or with little kids get priority, as they can get through the square to the front of line as show in the 3rd picture.
chin:
As we saw in Tibet and other places (pretty much all religious places) believers would offer money to the temple or the god they pay to.
People seeking blessing here is no exception. I saw this monk holding a very large stack of cash, and watched him for a while. Maybe he's offering changes to people who would donate later down the line? I didn't think he was just taking people's money.
chin:
On the last day of the festival, we woke up something like 3am in the morning to see the showing of this tangka. (Tangka 唐卡 is this very large picture made from clothes. It usually depict some Buddhism story or teaching.) The showing and recovering of the tangka is usually one of the major highlight of the festival. We saw it once in Tibet, in the main temple in Shigatse (see http://chinman.com/index.php/topic,22.msg366.html#msg366)
Supposedly the tangka would be recovered before the first day light, in order to avoid sun damage. But this one was showing long after the sun came up, simply because the line of people seeking blessing is too long. And I was too tired and sleepy to wake for the "final moment".
The last two pictures are blow up of the top and bottom of the giant tangka. As someone request to see if a special cloth for rolling up was showing in the tangka. :)
chin:
Some random pictures of the ceremony and the preparation before the final event.
And more mask dance.
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