nyingchi festival
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The Mountain-Circling Festival in Konpo |
It is said that Kyenrab Miba ever meditated in the Bonshi Holy Mountain and that there were seven temples in the Bonshi Holy Mountain in a circle.  During the Saga Dawa Festival, the people in Konpo often come to walk around the Bonshi Holy Mountain. People should walking around the Bonshi Holy Mountain from west to east, and the direction of moving Mani Ptayer tubes is the same. This the difference bwteen the Bon and the Tibetan buddhism. |
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The Mountain-Circling Festival in Menba | ||||
 The Bon carrires the traditions of workshipping the nature of the primitive religion. Stiff and high mountains which are devoutly worshipped by the believers are often regarded as the Holy Mountains. The Menba people believe that since the holy mountains are the way to the heaven, in order to bring the spirit to the heaven after death, they should have an intimate knowledge of the way to the heaven. So the religious activity of walking around the mountain came into being because of worshipping the nature. For example, the Menba people in Metok often go to walk around the main Holy Mountains such as Samdub Baishi, Butha Tseben and Yundi Ning.People often walk around the Samdub Baishi Holy Mountain usually in June and July, but during the period they only walk around the foot of the Samdub Baishi Holy Mountain. Every day they can walk around the holy mountain once. In winter the people begin to climb the peak of the Samdub Baishi Holy Mountain, and they can walk around the peak three times each day. The people believe that if they walk around the Samdub Baishi Holy Mountain, their spirits can enter the heaven after death. About worshipping the holy mountain, there are a number of taboos, such as never make noises, never cut the trees, never carry the earth and rock and never hunt in the holy mountains. | ||||
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It is quite rare in other Tibetan areas. The festival is a tradition for the Bon with a history of 600 years, which is held on the 10th day of the 8th month of the horse year by Tibetan calendar. It is said that the so-called treasure is a kind of gem which is very important to the products and fate of konpo. The people from Denchen bought the gem. After that, starvation and pestilence are popular in Konpo every year. Niangpu Lhasu is a festival for seeking help from gods which is celebrated by the local people in Konpo with the help of a practitioner. It is said that on the 10th day of 8th month of a certain year by the Tibetan calendar during the Spirit-Summoning Festival (the day when the gem was sold out), the gem flied back to Kongpo from Denchen. Since then people celebrate the festival every year. The celebration activities are including offering scarifices to gods, horse racing, yak fighting, dancing and so on.
Every 15th day of the 4th month by Tibetan calendar, the local people or the believers from Kongdou will walk around the lake and pray.page[1]page
