Phutuk festival concludes, cultural vibrancy of Walung Suday in Olangchungola
Alongchugola Photo: Dil Kumar Limbu, Nepal News Bank
Taplejung. The cultural festival celebrated by the marginalized Walung community has been celebrated. They are going to conclude today by performing rituals from the fifth day of Kojagrat Purnima of Dashain.
Ward Chairman of Faktanglung Rural Municipality-7 and local Chheten Lama, a local of Olangchugola, celebrates the festival only in Olangchugola. The Walung (Bhote) community has been living only in Olangchungola of Faktanglung Rural Municipality-7 of Taplejung, bordering China. This unique cultural festival of the community has been celebrated with great pomp since time immemorial and Chief Lama has come from Darjeeling, India, along with the guests.
In this festival, from the beginning to the end, the Lamas perform the puja according to the Buddhist rituals. Sunday (Lakshmi Puja) is considered to be the main time of worship. (During the festival, the Lamas perform the puja at midnight every day and also perform the Dev dance. It is believed that if the smoke of ghee and oil emanating from the ritual is performed by burning ghee and oil in the fire continuously, it will be auspicious if the smoke of ghee and oil from there crosses the axis of the monastery.
The last four days of the Phutuk festival are considered as special days and every night the puja is concluded with the performance of Dev Dance (Deity Dance). According to the locals, the lamas who participate in the festival wear the masks of gods and demons and perform the dance by acting out the war between the two sides. Guests are sitting near the monastery by hanging tents and trains. There is a four-hundred-and-a-half-year-old historical Dikichhyoling Monastery in Olangchungola.
Lama said that this year, Walung living in America, Sikkim, Darjeeling and other parts of Nepal along with his relatives and relatives participated in the festival as devotees. Olangchungola, a Himalayan settlement at an altitude of 3,20
0 meters above sea level, is inhabited by the Walung community. At present, 52 families of Walung are living here, while 11 families live in Yangma, the highest settlement of the district, Yangma (4,200 meters).
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