Ladakh Tourism provides the
opportunity to know the ancient culture of northern hilly area of India.
Various Ladakh packages for cultural tours are announced by the tour operators
of India which will take you through the Buddhist monasteries in Leh Ladakh.
Mostly festivals of Ladakh is celebrated in winter season, when tourists has to
face many difficulties to reach there. Some festivals are held in summer.
One of the important festivals of
the region is Karsha Gustor, which is celebrated in Karsha, Stok and Spituk monasteries in Ladakh every year as
their annual festival. Karsha monastery is situated on the top of the hill in
Zanskar region of Ladakh. This year, the festival is going to be celebrated for
two days on 16th and 17th July 2012.
The fate of predictions held in
Stok is commonly known as Zanskar (Karsha Gustor). The layman is predictor of the
future instead of reputed forecasters, who are commonly recognized for this
job. The layman is spiritually authorized by the Lamas after a formal
selection, and is prepared for receiving the spirit of the Holy Deity.
During the Karsha Gustor, a Black
Hat Dance is performed. The significance of this dance is to force the evil
forces to leave the region and to establish the victory of good over the evil.
This is also a masked dance similar to Chhams. The festival is a famous
festival of the Buddhists.
This is a Masked Dance that is
performed by the Monks of the Geluk-pa order because the Zanskar (Karsha
Gustor) Festival is typical to that order. The masked Hat Dancers symbolizes
the guardian divinities (Dharmapalas), and is a kind of help by the Geluk-pa
order.
The festival finishes with the
distribution of the sacrificial cake. This is also known as the Storma. The
concluding part of the Black Hat Dance during the Zanskar (Karsha Gustor) is
killing of the evil force by the leader of the dancers, which is known as
Argham.
The main feature of this dance is
the re-enactment of the assassination of the Tibetan renegade, King
Lang-dar-ma, by a Buddhist Monk. The king was said to be a traitor who lived in
mid 9th century, and caused a lot of harm to the state. Effigy of the evil
forces is burnt at the end of the festival.
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