{"id":88186,"date":"2019-12-18T03:07:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T21:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=88186"},"modified":"2019-12-18T03:07:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T21:37:26","slug":"khiksaba-festival-celebrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/12\/18\/khiksaba-festival-celebrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Khiksaba festival celebrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>RUPA, Dec 17:<\/strong> Khiksaba festival of the Sherdukpen tribe was celebrated here in West Kameng district from 12-16 December with pomp and gaiety.<br \/>\nBesides local MLA Dorjee Wangdi Kharma, ex-minister Dorjee Khandu Thongdok, former Dirang ZPM Dorjee Tsering Merakpa and people from various parts of the district participated in the festivities.<br \/>\nThe Sherdukpen tribe derives its name from Sher (Shergaon) and Tukpen (old name for Rupa) villages. The tribe also celebrates Buddhist festivals. Khiksaba, however, is an indigenous non-Buddhist festival of the Sherdukpens, dedicated to appease the forest deities and other mountain spirits.<br \/>\nThe community also celebrates the harvest festival, Rep Lapchang. Such festivals are presided over by the jiji or local shaman, instead of Buddhist lamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUPA, Dec 17: Khiksaba festival of the Sherdukpen tribe was celebrated here in West Kameng district from 12-16 December with pomp and gaiety. Besides local MLA Dorjee Wangdi Kharma, ex-minister Dorjee Khandu Thongdok, former Dirang ZPM Dorjee Tsering Merakpa and people from various parts of the district participated in the festivities. The Sherdukpen tribe derives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88186","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\/88186","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=88186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}