Torgya Festival Wallpapers

The Torgya Festival is a three-day Buddhist festival celebrated annually in January at the Tawang Monastery in Arunachal Pradesh, the largest monastery in India and the second largest in the world after the Potala Palace in Lhasa. The festival is performed to ward off evil spirits, prevent natural calamities, and usher in prosperity for the coming year. Monks perform elaborate Cham dances wearing vibrant costumes and fearsome masks representing protective deities and demons. The dances are accompanied by the deep sounds of long horns (dungchen), cymbals, and drums. The highlight is the destruction of an effigy made of dough (torma) representing all negative forces, which is burned in a ritual bonfire. The Monpa people of Tawang, who follow the Gelugpa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, gather from surrounding villages wearing traditional attire. The festival provides a rare glimpse into the living Tibetan Buddhist monastic traditions preserved in this remote corner of India near the Myanmar and Bhutan borders.