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Maidar Ergekh festival

 
 

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Maidar Ergekh festival

Maidar Ergekh festival The Maidar Ergekh The Maidar Ergekh festival is of Buddhist origin and is usually celebrated in the month of August. © Nomade

The great Lamaist festival is now celebrated again, every year, at Amarbayasgalant monastery. The prayer ceremony invokes the fifth Buddha's coming, or Maitreya. His statue is carried out of the monastery, beside the monks' procession.

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