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Wednesday, 21 April 2010 |
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Mandala known as Khil-khor (dkyil 'khor) is a symbolic representation of landscape of the "Buddha-land," or the enlightened vision of a Buddha, which inevitably represents the nature of experience and the intricacies of both the enlightened and confused mind, or "a microcosm representing various divine powers at work in the universe." Such mandalas consist of an outer circular mandala and an inner square (or sometimes circular) mandala with an ornately decorated mandala "palace" placed at the center. Any part of the inner mandala can be occupied by Buddhist glyphs and symbols, as well as by images of its associated deities, which "symbolise different stages in the process of the realisation of the truth." |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 29 April 2010 )
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Thursday, 26 January 2006 |
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There are many festive occasions round the year in a village. Most of the social and cultural events are somehow confined to a village or a smaller region but the annual monastic festivals are one of the largest occasions of gathering and also a crowd puller in terms of tourist visits. Such religious or monastic occasions, which takes place at least once a year in every monastery of every villages are usually a celebrations of the birth anniversary of its patron or any other major events in Buddhist calendar. Such celebrations are not only attended by the villagers but also by adjoining and neighboring villages too. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 05 February 2009 )
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