Essay on Snowdon Festival in Tibet!!!!

Tibet's Snowdon Festival

There is a very special festival in Tibet--Snowdon Festival.

"Xue" means yogurt in Tibetan, and "dun" means to eat; together they mean a day of eating yogurt.

There are grand Tibetan opera performances and Buddha basking ceremony in Xuedong Festival, so it is also known as "Tibetan Opera Festival" and "Show Buddha Festival"

On the day of Xuedong Festival, when the reddish sunset floats out from the east, a pair of gigantic satin Buddha statues will be hung on the high ceiling of the city, and the Buddha statues will be hung on the high ceiling of the city. Buddha statue will hang from a high cliff.

The sun has not yet risen and the sky is a light green color. Tens of thousands of Buddhist believers gathered at the bottom of the cliff of the spreading Buddha. The monks blew a loud and powerful horn sound. Flooding horn sound to where, there began simmering sang; simmering sang this is always Tibetan unique religious prayer customs, it is said to welcome the gods before first burning incense to purify the surrounding environment, to eliminate impurity and filth, and ordinary people live at any time there is pollution, is a kind of dirt, a kind of impurity. Burning sang is an act of purification, every stain, ghost, devil and filth will thus be excluded, with the effect of purifying the environment, eliminating evil, impurity and purification.

As this smoke slowly rises, hundreds of monks clad in red robes, two in a row, carry satin Buddha statues rolled into bundles and fish their way out of the shrine. They walked in unison, like a red dragon toward the towering cliffs. The gathered worshippers immediately crowded forward, offering khaddas and saluting the statue with their foreheads.

When the satin statue of Buddha rolled up into a long dragon moved up the cliff, a number of lamas have kowtowed on the cliff to meet. Four monk musicians climbed up the cliff, raised the suona to play music, and the lamas began to chant piously in the sound of the suona. In the chanting sound and suona sound in the Buddha statue slowly put down, gradually show the face of Sakyamuni Buddha.

Tibetan opera performances are one of the must-see highlights of the Snowdon Festival. From the beginning of the second day of the Snowdon Festival, the Potala Palace opposite the Longwangtan Park, the Tibetan opera program will not stop from eleven o'clock in the morning has been advocating the twilight to come. Because of time constraints this is in the Tibetan song extracted from the essence of the part. No will keep singing for three or five days.

Tibetan opera performance is different from other theater, Tibetan opera performance wearing a mask. There are various varieties of masks for Tibetan opera. At the end of the play, the financial personnel who manage the lama will give something to the actors, as usual, bags of barley, ghee, tea and so on. Come to see the theater merchants and people will be wrapped in coins with the hatha, when the play to a predetermined time, the crowd will throw the hatha to the stage, the coins will be like rain on the actor's head on the body.

Snowdon is the festival of eating yogurt, the festival and the tradition of eating yogurt and thrilling yogurt is formed in a long historical precipitation

Buddhist precepts how much more than three hundred, the most stringent precepts than the killing of life - from the roadside flowers and plants and insects to the human beings who have intelligence, can not be killed.

In summer, when people spend a lot of time outdoors, they inevitably shoot some small insects to death, so every summer, from June to the end of July, the lamas can only practice behind closed doors in their monasteries.

The lamas stay in the monastery all day long and eat vegetarian food, which is not enough for them to live a monotonous life. This makes the believers are very upset, summer pasture a lot of square cows long fat just, the believers will be made of milk yogurt, so that not only do not kill but also filial piety to the lamas living Buddha, so this practice will spread.

It is said that in the eleventh century, Buddhism in order to encourage people to dedicate yogurt so do this enchantment: all the dedication of yogurt home, livestock shall not be infectious diseases, do not go astray, beasts do not eat. This word spread among the masses, so the people who offered yogurt and more enthusiastic.

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Tibet's Snowdon Festival

There is a very special festival in Tibet, the Snowdon Festival.

"Xue" means yogurt in Tibetan, and "dun" means to eat; the two together are the day to eat yogurt.

In the Xuedong Festival there are grand Tibetan opera performances and sun Buddha ceremony, so it is also known as the "Tibetan Opera Festival" and "show Buddha Festival"

In the Xuedong Festival day, a reddish red sunrise from the east when the sunrise, a pair of huge and incomparable satin Buddha Shakyamuni Radical will be hanging from a high cliff.

The sun had not yet risen, and the sky was a light green color. Tens of thousands of Buddhist believers gathered at the bottom of the cliff of the Spreading Buddha. The monks blew a loud and powerful horn sound. Flooding horn sound to where, there began simmering sang; simmering sang this is always Tibetan unique religious prayer customs, it is said to welcome the gods before first burning incense to purify the surrounding environment, to eliminate impurity and filth, and ordinary people live at any time there is pollution, is a kind of dirt, a kind of impurity. Burning sang is an act of purification, every stain, ghost, devil and filth will thus be excluded, with the effect of purifying the environment, eliminating evil, impurity and purification.

As this smoke slowly rises, hundreds of monks clad in red robes, two in a row, carry satin Buddha statues rolled into bundles and fish their way out of the shrine. They walked in unison, like a red dragon toward the towering cliffs. The gathered worshippers immediately crowded forward to offer khaddas and bow their foreheads to the statue of Buddha.

When the satin statue of Buddha rolled up into a long dragon moved up the cliff, a number of lamas have kowtowed on the cliff to meet. Four monk musicians climbed up the cliff, raised the suona to play music, and the lamas began to chant piously in the sound of the suona. In the chanting sound and suona sound in the Buddha statue slowly put down, gradually showing the face of Sakyamuni Buddha.

Tibetan opera performances are one of the must-see highlights of the Snowdon Festival. From the beginning of the second day of the Snowdon Festival, the Potala Palace opposite the Longwangtan Park, the Tibetan opera program will not stop from eleven o'clock in the morning has been advocating the twilight to come. Because of time constraints this is in the Tibetan song extracted from the essence of the part. No will keep singing for three or five days.

Tibetan opera performance is different from other theater, Tibetan opera performance wearing a mask. There are various varieties of masks for Tibetan opera. At the end of the play, the financial personnel who manage the lama will give something to the actors, as usual, bags of barley, ghee, tea and so on. Come to see the theater merchants and people will be wrapped in coins with the hatha, when the play to a predetermined time, the crowd will throw the hatha to the stage, the coins will be like rain on the actor's head on the body.

Snowdon is the festival of eating yogurt, the festival and the tradition of eating yogurt and thrilling yogurt is formed in a long historical precipitation

Buddhist precepts how much more than three hundred, the most stringent precepts than the killing of life - from the roadside flowers and plants and insects to the human beings who have intelligence, can not be killed.

In summer, when people spend a lot of time outdoors, they inevitably shoot some small insects to death, so every summer, from June to the end of July, the lamas can only practice behind closed doors in their monasteries.

The lamas stay in the monastery all day long and eat vegetarian food, which is not enough for them to live a monotonous life. This makes the believers are very upset, summer pasture a lot of square cows long fat just, the believers will be made of milk yogurt, so that not only do not kill but also filial piety to the lamas living Buddha, so this practice will spread.

It is said that in the eleventh century, Buddhism in order to encourage people to dedicate yogurt so do this enchantment: all the dedication of yogurt home, animals love that no infectious diseases, do not go astray, the beasts do not eat. This word spread among the masses, so the yogurt offering people and more enthusiastic.