The Hemis festival will be held between July 14 and July 15 at the Hemis Monastery in Ladakh. This is an extremely well-known festival. Hemis festival 2016 or Hemis Monastery is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of the Drukpa Lineage, located in Hemis, Ladakh Situated 45 km from Leh, the monastery was re-established in 1672 by the Ladakhi king Sengge Namgyal.
The Hemis Festival is a 2-day long cultural extravaganza. The Hemis festival is dedicated to (Lord Padmasambhava) venerated as the Dance Performance at Hemis Monastery representative reincarnate of Buddha.
- This 2-day festival is celebrated on the 10th day of the Tibetan lunar month and remembered as the birth of Padmasambhava.
- During the festival, the locals get dressed-up in traditional clothes, where men wear cummerbunds and women wear vibrant headgears and loads of jewelry.
- The most esoteric of festivities are the mystic mask dances performed by the lamas, that illustrates good prevailing over evil. The performers wear elaborate and bizarre costumes and brightly painted masks.
- The Mask Dances of Ladakh are referred collectively as chams Performance. Chams performance is a fundamental a part of Tantric tradition.
- Every 12th year known as the Tibetan Year of the Monkey, Hemis Monastery Festival takes an auspicious turn.the largest Thangka (Tibetan Buddhist painting on cotton) will be unfurled this year after twelve years, in 2016.
