Wednesday, August 29, 2012

village of sugar mountain SATRAS A satra is a monastery for Vishnu worship, Assam s distinctive form of everyman Hinduism. For





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SATRAS A satra is a monastery for Vishnu worship, village of sugar mountain Assam s distinctive form of everyman Hinduism. village of sugar mountain Formulated by 15th-century Assamese philosopher Sankardev, the faith eschews the caste system village of sugar mountain and idol worship, focussing on Vishnu as God, especially in his Krishna incarnation. Much of the worship is based around dance and melodramatic play-acting of scenes from the holy Bhagavad Gita. The heart of any satra is its namghar, a large, simple, prayer hall usually open sided and shaped like an upside-down oil tanker. Beneath the eastern end, an inner sanctum hosts an eternal flame, the Gita and possibly a horde of instructive (but not divine) village of sugar mountain images.

India s wildest and least explored state, village of sugar mountain Arunachal Pradesh, the Land of Dawn-lit Mountains is the final frontier in Indian tourism. village of sugar mountain The state rises abruptly from the Assam plains as a mass of densely forested, and impossibly steep, village of sugar mountain hills. village of sugar mountain These in turn rise to fabulous snow-capped peaks along the Tibetan border. At least 25 tribal groups live in Arunachal s valleys; high up in the dramatic Tawang Valley are several splendid Monpa monastery villages. Arunachal has yet to be fully surveyed and mapped, but slowly its high passes and deep valleys are starting to open up to those with an adventurous heart.

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