Excelsior Correspondent
LEH, Nov 22: The 13-day-long Wangchok Festival concluded today at Hemis Monastary.
The Wangchok ritual is held every year alternately at Chemdey and Hemis Monastary. This year it was organized at Hemis Sasnag Chosling Gonpa where the monks of these two monasteries assembled and perform ritual of Mahakala diety by drawing sand mandala.
This festival is celebrated in the ninth month of Tibetan calender from 18thto 29. The main attraction of this festival is Mahakala and its family’s sacred mask dance and the dissemination of mandala at the end of Wangchok.
With the pandamic situation become normal, this year people in large numbers witnessed the Festival with great enthusiasm and religious fervor. This festival also marks victory of good over evils.
On the last day of this event, monks from Chemdey and Hemis Monastaries perform ritual till late night and discarded “Torma” butter and flour made figures of diety on the culmination of this festival.
Hemis Monastary is one the most famous Monasteries in Ladakh and belongs to Drukpa sect of Tibetan Buddhism. Annual Hemis festival or Hemis- Tseschu is held in the month of July and it is believed to be the most famous and sacred festival in Ladakh. Apart from local devotees, people from all over the world come to see the “Chams” of Guru-Padma Sambhavav and its eight different manifestations.
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