Friday, November 21, 2014

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.