NEPAL
Nepal transports the traveler into a secret world. The temple of the Kathmandu Valley and the numerous breathtaking mountain regions are usually the targets for most visitors.
Only a few ever travel to Lo Manthang, the capital of Mustang, a Tibetan kingdom established in 1380 that lasted almost seven centuries, ruled by the same dynasty.
At the end of the 17th century, the king invited the head of the Sakya school from Tibet, in Lo Manthang. He resided in Chhode Monastery and performed special rituals for the wellbeing of all sentient beings. Based on the lunar calendar, each year since then, Lo Manthang would host the three-day Tiji Festiva of ritual dances on the booming sounds of the longhorns and Tibetan trumpets that continues the tradition of cleansing the territory of demons and harmful elements.
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Tiji
During the 17th century the Mustang king afraid that a demon conquered his land invited a Tibetan monk to Lo Manthang to relieve the land of its demonic curse. The monk came and practiced a meditation ritual based on meditative dance steps and prayers and was able to eliminate the nefarious and destructive forces. The monks learned the practice and every year cleanse their town of demons in the spectacular Tiji Festival.
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Mustang
Behind the haughty white peaks of the Himalayas that embrace it like a cocoon stand for centuries the forbidden kingdom of Mustang. FlyingMonk produced a three-part travel documentary series about this mysterious kingdom where the land is cleansed yearly of demons in the most spectacular religious Tibetan Buddhism festival in Nepal named Tiji.