{"id":232267,"date":"2024-01-10T00:29:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T18:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=232267"},"modified":"2024-01-10T00:29:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T18:59:12","slug":"torgya-festival-gets-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/01\/10\/torgya-festival-gets-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Torgya festival gets underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[Prem Chetry]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>TAWANG, 9 Jan:<\/strong> The three-day Torgya festival got underway at the Gaden Namgyal Lhatse monastery here on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Torgya, a weeklong religious festival, comprises several rituals led by the monastery&#8217;s abbot Sheling Rinpoche. The last three days feature mask dances (cham) for the public, depicting various significant episodes of centuries-old events.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first day of the festival saw the participation of former prime minister of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile Dr Lobsang Sangye, local MLA Tsering Tashi, Karmik &amp; Adhyatmik Affairs Department Chairman Jambay Wangdi, 190 Brigadier VS Rajput, and DC Kanki Darang.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mask dances were performed in the morning, while &#8216;renouncing of the ritual cake&#8217; was performed in the afternoon. It is a symbolical renouncement of one&#8217;s ignorance and hatred, and victory of good over evil.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Large numbers of domestic and international tourists, besides pilgrims from neighbouring Bhutan are participating in the festival.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Prem Chetry] TAWANG, 9 Jan: The three-day Torgya festival got underway at the Gaden Namgyal Lhatse monastery here on Tuesday. Torgya, a weeklong religious festival, comprises several rituals led by the monastery&#8217;s abbot Sheling Rinpoche. The last three days feature mask dances (cham) for the public, depicting various significant episodes of centuries-old events. The first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-232267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}