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.
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.
