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Festival in Bhutan

Posted by pwangchu | 5th August 2008

The early history of Bhutan abounds with narratives of the great deeds of buddhist masters. These stories often defy logic and modern interpretation but such was their sway over our pool of beliefs and customs that they became the very bedrock of Bhutanese culture and tradition. As we now try, increasingly, to retirieve whatever little knowledge about our past as we could from the dying tradition of oral story-telling, we find that there is so much we can learn about ourselves and also proudly narrate to the outside world.

One such story is about Gomkora-a silver of land and rock outcrop, on the bank of Dangmechu, in the far east of Bhutan where each year, beginning of the 8th day of the second month of the lunar calendar, every farmer leaves his spade an oxen behind to revel in the festivity of a mighty spiritual tradition.

"Go around Gomkora today for tomorrow may be too late", so goes a local song that entices devotees to visit Gomkora."

The place comes alive, once every ye

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