secred Lama Dance Chhe chyu Cham Shechen Monastery

At the end of every Tibetan Year , and the begging of every new one at Shechen Monastries, both here in Nepal and in Eastern Tibet several nine day long ceremonies, called druchhen, are conducted. These rituals are spiritual practices calling practitioners to reflection, contemplation, prayer, and meditaion. Monks, nuns and lay people practiced together in the content of the texts recited along with the deep voiced chanting musical offerings from the long trumpets, bells, drums and chmbals, help to free the mind from discursive thoughts and bring it to a contemplative state. At the end of each drupchen the sand mandala created meticulously and specifically for that ritual was swept away as an indicationof the impermanence of all things. The powders gathered up have been thrown into a river so that all who use the eater animals or humans are blessed.

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