Saturday 27 April 2013

Hemis Festival in India


Hemis Festival in India. 40 km from Leh, it is the richest, best-known and greatest gompa of Ladakh. Its reputation arises from the significant yearly event organised here in summer time. The event is in honor of Expert Padma Sambhav's beginning birthday. It also has the greatest Thangkha in Ladakh, which is unfurled, once in 12 decades (next in 2004) Hemis was designed in 1630 during the leadership of Sengge Namgyal, an illustrious leader of Ladakh. It prospered under the Namgyal empire for the royals preferred the Drugpa sect, which handled the monastery. It is separated into two, the set up area on the right and the primary forehead on the remaining. The area Dukhang is also used as "green room" by the performers during the event. The forehead is known as Tshogkhang. The varandahs have a surfeit of frescoes, among them the Buddhist 'wheel of life' (Kalachakra) and the lords of the four areas, besides the prayer rim.

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