Voice of Unity and Non-Violence
The Tibetean Festival of Non-Violence in the city of Ahemdabad vibrantly brought under focus the kinship Tibetan culture has had with much of what we call Indian – a richness of tradition giving joy and meaning to like, an attitute of promoting and unifying them, an endeavour to unravel powers an individual has within tempered with moderation in adopting ways to achieveit.
The serene-looking ’Roof of the World’ had perhaps never been so close to us in Ahemdabad. “No,I know”Gita Mayor says,”much of their culture.”Tibetan performing artists celebrated the emerging at Natrani, Darpana Academy, hosts to the festival with Kanoria Centre for Arts, with select scenes and sounds of the culture they ardently seek to preserve and promote.
Thangtong Lhugar Centre of Dharamsala presented the spectacular ”Performance of Traditional Tibetan Dances and Songs”Led by Phuntsok Tsering, its director, 14 young performers, presented tweleve short items. In the opening item, white-bearded masked performers, representing the founder of the opera, sing in praise of the Dalai Lama. They have a ritual dance to purify the stage, which here they performed as the last item.
