The Yak Dance - An Unique Traditional Dance

Yak Dance is often considered as the native dance of the Merak and Sakteng communities. The dancers traveled all the way from Merak, located far east of Bhutan to perform at the International Ethnobiological Congress in Bumthang. Various participants from 57 countries participated at the Congress and obviously the ceremony. This dance was one of the most prominent features at the ceremony and well it was a life time experience for me to witness it. 

Yak's expression seems to be excited  and yeah also it was worth watching. Culture is the one that has identified the unique identity of the people of Merak and Sakteng and Bhutan at large. For most of the communities in Merak and Sakteng, Yak farming is the main source of income besides agricultural trade and tourism.

How Bhutan look at Merak - Sakteng is how the world look at Bhutan!

Ultimate Eco-bridge

Rhododendron Garden

Phallus & People

Through the Eastern Bhutan Highway (Bumthang - Mongar)

Road blockage due to road widening works. Waited for half an hour.

Fortunately encountered with snow fall, so took a toll for a while. It was exciting though.

Grey Langur; probably hit by a speeding vehicle. They have right to way, one shouldn't obstruct their way. Human activities are always an wildlife intervention.

Thrimshingla Pass, Alt. 12,400 ft.

Lobesa vegetable market, stopped here for the lunch.

Piptanthus nepalensis,  a commonly found plant species.

Traditional alcohol vessel on display at Mongar.

A mini Bhutanese traditional house model. Liked it very much!

Ruins of famous historical Zhongar Dzong on the way to Mongar.

Scene at Thrumshingla Pass endowed with snow.

Kurjee Lhakhang at Bumthang

On the way to the Monastery

Corylopsis himalayana

When My Eyes see and Brain think

Zangthopelri (Guru Rinpochhe's Abot)

Went for the trip to monasteries and temple in Bumthang on 17th September, 2012. 

Visited many monasteries and temples in Bumthang, the most striking temple before my eyes was Zangthopelri. It has unique and attractive architect. I like the way it is built and the location is awesome, it is located on the top of the beautiful hill. 

Zangthopelri is a heaven, the journey is not near for the commoners. Everyone wants to pay a visit and never come back. What we got to do to go there, is what the religion preaches. Following is hard but the destination is always waiting for us, no matter how long we take to reach there.

It is not that there is no door to heaven, but what i think is that there is no stairway to heaven. we build stairways!

Door is always there, We build stairways!

It is always interesting for me to note that, everything is an open door to me but it is sometimes disheartening to know that some stairways are impossible to build. But once we try to build and build it, it is no more impossible (that's how I inspire myself), I say it's 'Possibled'.

Building the stairway

The process of finding the door and stairway to heaven is always difficult for me. I try and tried, still I find myself trying and i think i will be trying. It takes many lives of rebirth to actually build the way to heaven, I wonder will I be reborn? If then, will I remember my past life? Reincarnation is a vast subject and a tough subject to fully understand.

This a just an opinion of what I think.

Impermanence is what actually our life is all about, we are mortal. Life as some say, is like a dream, a long dream. Going by the way we live, we live as if we are immortal. We work, love, hate, cry, fight, laugh, read, etc., we do lot of things that actually is impermanent along with our life. The duration of impermanence of our life is longer than the duration of impermanence of what our life does. I think the only permanent life, we will poses is only when, we happened to reach heaven. So, I think it is really important for us to find the stairway to the heaven and climb it. 

Life is like a long dream

The way we live is something that must be challenged in order to build the stairway to heaven, but it is a really difficult task for me. 

The thoughts were produced by the brain upon seeing the photographs clicked during the Bumthang trip. This is just to test that somehow, when our eyes see things or photographs, our brain produce all sort of sensible and non-sensible thoughts showing how the eyes have control over brain. The thoughts written above needs further validation. 

PS: No Proof Read

I have uploaded some photographs below to see, how your thoughts are produced upon seeing the photographs.