Teji festival will be celebrate 03 , 04 and 05 May 2016 in Upper Mustang

Overview 

Lucky for you, this trip coincides with the end of the dry season and thus overlaps with the Tiji Festival, a spring-renewal party that ushers in the monsoons while celebrating the triumph of good over evil in a ritual locals call “the chasing of the demons.” Tiji comes from the words ten che, meaning the “hope of the dharma prevailing in all worlds,” the message Guru Rinpoche carried through this region over a thousand years ago. Tiji consists of three-day of Tibetan rituals. The Tiji centers around a myth, which tells of a deity named Dorje Jono who must battle against his demon father to save the Kingdom of Mustang from destruction. Tiji comes from the word “ten che” meaning the hope of Buddha Dharma prevailing in all worlds and is effectively a spring renewal festival. The trek to Mustang is a spectacular walk through Himalayan terrain that contrasts wildly with the lush fertile hills and valleys located to the south of the main Himalayan chain. Mustang is a barren landscape with only a few small green fields dotting a lunar landscape, but boasts a remarkable spiritual heritage. Tiji Festival Trek combines through Mustang’s fascinating villages, alongside Buddhist shrines and temples and in the shadows of the Himalayas most iconic mountains, before arriving at the fabled walled city of Lo Manthang for 3 days of dancing at the Tenchi Festival. The terrain is rough and the altitude can be hard going but you will be in the safe hands of Himalayan expert Adventure Connexion and his team of sherpas. Expect mainly camping (fully supported) with a few lodges and hotels in Kathmandu and Pokhara for good measure. During the Tiji Festival Trekking, the town square fills with characters clad as demons in flamboyant robes and hideous masks dancing about, slashing at the air with their swords and intoning spells over onlookers. Spend the day steeped in the sights, sounds, and movements of this once-in-a-lifetime cultural marvel. 

This three-day ceremony is lit up with colorful custom dress, dancing, music, and reenactments from the story of a deity and his demon father. Date for Tiji Festival 2016 in Lo-Manthang is announced. The teji festival will be celebrate 03 , 04 and 05 May 2016 in Upper Mustang.

Highlights of this trip

Trek in the shadows of Dhaulagiri and Annapurna along the Kali Ghandaki River enroute to Mustang 

Pass through white-washed mountain villages, alongside colourful Buddhist shrines and temples 

Following 5 days of trekking, reach Lo Manthang, the fabled walled city of Mustang 

Spend 3 days in Lo Manthang at the Tije Festival – a vibrant Buddhist celebration with dancing and traditional music

Itinerary 

25 April 2016: Day 1: Arrival in Kathmandu 1340m. Overnight at Hotel

26 April 2016: Day 2: Full day Sightseeing tour around Kathmandu valley 1340m. Overnight at Hotel

27 April 2016: Day 3: Fly from Kathmandu to Pokhara 820m/ 25 minutes by flights / 4 to 5 hours by Car 

28 April 2016: Day 4: Fly from Pokhara to Jomsom 2720m and trek to Kagbeni 2800m/3-4 hours

29 April 2016: Day 5: Trek from Kagbeni to Tsaile 3100m/5-6 hours. Overnight at Lodge

30 April 2016: Day 6: Trek from Tsaile to Ghiling 3570m/6-7 hours via Chuksi Cave. Overnight at Lodge

01 May 2016: Day 7: Trek from Ghiling to Drakmar 3450m/5-6 hours. Overnight at Lodge

02 May 2016: Day 8: Trek from Drakmar to Lo-Manthang 3840m/7-8 hours via Ghar Gompa and Marang-La Pass.

Tenchi Festival Start

03 May 2016: Day 9: First day bserve Tenji Festival Lo-Manthang 3840m. Overnight at Lodge

04 May 2016: Day 10: Second day observe Tenji Festival Lo-Manthang 3840m. Overnight at Lodge

05 May 2016: Day 11: Final observe Tenji Festival Lo-Manthang 3840m. Overnight at Lodge

Tenchi Festival End

06 May 2016: Day 12: Trek from Lo-Manthang to Tsarang 3560m/3-4 hours. Overnight at Lodge

07 May 2016: Day 13: Trek from Tsarang to Syangmochen 3500m/6-7 hours. Overnight at Lodge

08 May 2016: Day 14: Trek from Syangmochen to Chhusang 2980m/5-6 hours. Overnight at Lodge

09 May 2016: Day 15: Trek from Chhusang to Jomsom 2720m/6-7 hours. Overnight at Lodge

10 May 2016: Day 16: Fly from Jomsom to Pokhara 820m and rest. Overnight at hotel

11 May 2016: Day 17: Fly back Pokhara to Kathmandu 1340m/6-7 hours. Overnight at Hotel

12 May 2016: Day 18: Final departure from Kathmandu

The Tiji celebration is a three-day - 14th, 15th and 16th of May

 The Tiji celebration is a three-day custom known as "The pursuing of the Demons" and it is fixated on the Tiji myth. Tiji recounts the story of a god named Dorje Jono who must fight against his devil father to spare the Kingdom of Mustang from demolition. The devil father wreaks devastation on Mustang by making a water lack which, in this amazingly bone-dry area, is the most valuable life-supporting asset. Dorje Jono in the long run overcomes the evil presence and banishes him from the area. 

Tiji is a festival and reaffirmation of this myth. All through the celebration the occasions and story of the myth are re-authorized. The celebration is timed to agree with the end of the dry season (late winter/spring) and ushers in the wetter storm season. Tiji originates from the words "ten che" signifying "the trust of Buddha Dharma predominant in all planets" and is a spring replenishment celebration that additionally commends the triumph of great over insidious. In 1964 Michel Peissel was the first westerner to watch the Tiji celebration.

Mustang Tiji Festival 2015 - Himalayan exploration Treks pvt. Ltd

Mustang Tiji Festival 2015

Tiji Festival is a three day ritual celebrated on the Upper Mustang region of Nepal. The month of May is basically when the festival falls. Formerly known as the Kingdom of Lo the Upper Mustang region has held this special festival since a very long time. The dry, arid, parched region of the Upper Mustang is scarce of water and this Tiji Festival is celebrated to invoke the deity Dorje Jano to save the Kingdom from being completely devoid of water.

Mustang Tiji Festival is believed to have prevailed around the time of Lowo Kenchen (1456-1532), considered as one of the greatest Buddhist teacher and preacher of his time. It was then celebrated with great enthusiasm and was evidently considered as one of the main festival of Lo. This festival gained its prior glory and reputes after the visit of Ngachen Ngawang Kunga Sonam, a great Sakyapa master from Tibet who was invited so as to pacify the gods and remove any impediment from the Buddhist religious traditions. This master is said to have performed the masked dances as the main dancer (tsowo) and pulled an arrow to drive away demons during the Mustang Tiji festival trek.

Tiji celebration in Mustang is a three-day custom known as "the pursuing of the Demons" that focuses on the Tiji myth.

Tiji celebration in Mustang is a three-day custom known as "the pursuing of the Demons" that focuses on the Tiji myth. The myth recounts a divinity named Dorje Jono who must fight against his evil spirit father to spare the Kingdom of Mustang from pulverization. The devil father wreaked destruction on Mustang by bringing a deficiency of water (a profoundly valuable asset in this exceptionally dry land) and creating numerous coming about debacles from starvation including creature misfortune. Dorje Jono in the long run beats the evil spirit and banishes him from the area. 

Tiji is a festival and reaffirmation of this myth and all through the celebration the different scenes of the myth will be sanctioned. It is obviously timed to harmonize with the end of the dry winter/spring season and will introduce the wetter rainstorm season (the collecting season for Mustang). Tiji originates from the saying ten che signifying 'the trust of Buddha Dharma overarching on the planet' and is successfully a spring recharging celebration. Bronco is a remote, semi-autonomous Tibetan kingdom inside the region of Nepal (simply north of the Annapurna Region on the Tibetan outskirt), and one of the last bastions of undisturbed Tibetan society on the planet. Buddhist cloisters and convents are incorporated with precluding bluffs and mountain ledges, and the starkly excellent, blustery, dry Tibetan level is unbroken for a long time of trekking or riding on horseback. The trek enters Upper Mustang at Kagbeni, a curious medieval town settled among apple plantations and circled by snow mountains.

Tiji Festival 2015

Tiji Festival 2015   Tiji Festival Trekking Organizer in Nepal

Tiji Festival is an age old custom being done in the Upper Mustang district since quite a while back. Circled around the Tiji myth, this celebration is prevalent, not just among the occupants of the Upper Mustang area, yet is picking up overall distinguishment among vacationers everywhere throughout the world. Amalgamated with the stunningly otherworldly Upper Mustang Trek, the Tiji Festival can be seen with full style amid the month of May. Starting 2015, the celebration will be hung on fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth of May, a three day convention.

Lo Manthang is the capital of this really one of a kind area implanted in Nepal, however disconnected totally regarding conventions and societies from whatever remains of the world. Untouched by the domains of urbanization and modernization, trekking the region obliges exceptional license from an enrolled trekking office. This dry locale is typically without downpour and the Tiji Festival is completed to spare the area from going totally dry in the dry season and to inspire the divine beings to make it rain.

As per the Tiji myth, an evil presence, the father of the divinity Dorje Jano wreaked destruction in the dry zone of Mustang by making a pressing shortage of water. Dorje Jano yielded the adoration for his father and performed different ceremonies, at last overcoming the devil and banishing him from the kingdom. The Tiji celebration is the reenactment of the same myth and is a three day custom.

The celebration was accepted to have been begun around the time when Buddhist instructor Lowo Kenchen dwelled in Lo Manthang. The celebration in the long run lost its appeal and was restored after the visit of Ngachen Ngawang Kunga Sonam a Skayapa expert from Tibet who performed veiled moves to pursue away the devils. From that point forward the Tiji celebration has been commended with full heavenliness and has figured out how to pull in the consideration of guests from all as far and wide as possible. Tiji Festival 2015 will be the same and will be a phenomenal chance to watch the remarkable, exceptional exercises did in the otherworldly Lo Manthang.

The blowing of cymbals, drums and horns denote the proclamation of the initiation of the celebration. A huge Thanka is moved down the south divider of the principle square. This is trailed by the covered moves which are viewed as vital to pursue away the evil presences. The second day is the day for an immense treat as the King and also the regular inhabitants assemble and consume together. The formal devastation of the leftovers of the fiendishness evil spirit and the torching of the sham of the devil are the exercises completed on the third day.

To achieve the Lo Manthang entry in Kathmandu on fifth May 2015 is important. From here trekkers will drive to Pokhara, fly to Jomsom and trek through Kagbeni, Chele, Gilling, Dakmar, Tsaranag and reach Lo Manthang on fourteenth May. In the wake of watching the three day elite custom, trekkers can backtrack the same way or trek through Yara, Tange, Tetang, Muktinath lastly to Jomsom.

The Tiji celebration is a never seen previously, extraordinary custom, an incredible sight and to recollect for whatever is left of one's life. Thus, watching the Tiji Festival 2015 is exceptionally prescribed for anyone who wishes to trek over the magically delightful locales of Nepal.