Here are some pictures of two towns I visited with the lamas for two puja ceremonies for people who had died. They were beautiful ceremonies and I was lucky to participate in them. They combine humor, grief, dancing, and chanting and an incredible sense of community and love. The ceremonies are meant to help the deceased to pass to a better life.


Me lighting candles at the town of Puma



Tibetan horns for the puja

In a beautiful rammed earth kitchen

at Puma village

Decorations and oblations at Najar

Awesome looking old guys at Najar

They are Gurung people who are famous for their fierce

fighting that repelled the nations takover by the East Indian

Trading company in the 18th century. Very wonderful people!