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Naropa Festival
September 26 , 2018
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- The 5-day Naropa Festival concluded in Ladakh with a Guinness World Record in Ladakhi Dance.
- The festival also known as ‘Kumbh Mela of the Himalayas’ is celebrated on every 12th year of the Tibetian calendar.
- The festival celebrates the teachings and preachings of Buddhist scholar-saint, Naropa.
- To mark its end this year, 299 Ladakhi women in traditional attire danced together ‘Shondol’, a traditional dance to enter into the Guinness World Record.
- At the end of the festival, ‘Tsering Ladol’ was honoured with ‘Himalayan Hero’ Award.
- Tsering ladol was the first Ladakhi girl to scale Mt Everest in 2005.
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