Ceremony and Tibetan Dance in Nepal

Devotion to the Buddha with chanting of Tibetan sutras, followed by a ceremony to dispel demons and a mask dance (symbolizing the old Bon gods as demons subdued by Buddhism). Seen in the village of Lho at 3000 meters in the Manaslu Conservation District / Gorkha District in the Nepal Himalaya. Conducted by Buddhist monks who walked up from a monastery down the valley and camped here for a week. The young lama who symbolically stabs evil spirits etc. is probably considered a reincarnation of an earlier lama. April 2009, prior to the spring planting of barley.