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    Sang (an incense of juniper mixed with flour) is sprinkled on to the offerings. Everything, from food to clothing, is sacrificed on a pyre. In accordance to Bon tradition there would originally have been a blood sacrifice too. However, the Lurol festival has had to be tamed since it's recent resurgence following banishment during the Cultural Revolution. Views[822] Everyone in the village enters the A woman raises her arms in prayer to the Mountain God Amyesrmachen, who is temporarily manifested in a human medium . Views[651] Boys jostle as they parade in line. Many others from the surrounding villages of Rebkong, in Qinghai Province (former Amdo Tibet), take part in this procession as way of penance to appease the surrounding Mountains. Views[544] A young girl supports the coral beads from pulling on her hair as she waits to parade, for the best part of three days, in the Lurol Festival. Views[752]
     

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