I attended this festival/ceremony earlier this year, 15 May 2011 to be exact. I've been told that this festival celebrates the conclusion of the reading of the holy scripts, a year long reading. After walking all around the area with the holy scripts (looks like 40X15X10 cm wooden boxes) while playing traditional musical instruments - they return to Kalpa and store the books back in the shrine.
The ceremony is a part of the quite unique religious of Kalpa which is a Hindu&Buddhism mixture.
I attended this festival/ceremony earlier this year, 15 May 2011 to be exact. I've been told that this festival celebrates the conclusion of the reading of the holy scripts, a year long reading. After walking all around the area with the holy scripts (looks like 40X15X10 cm wooden boxes) while playing traditional musical instruments - they return to Kalpa and store the books back in the shrine.
The ceremony is a part of the quite unique religious of Kalpa which is a Hindu&Buddhism mixture.
tzallyf 5 months ago