Title

Ritual Journeys

Description

Ritual Journeys is an intimate portrait of Merayk, an 80 years old Lepcha shaman or Padim. Merayk lives with his family in Dzongu, a Lepcha reserve in North Sikkim, Eastern Himalayas. He performs healing rituals for individuals as well as rituals for the well-being of the household, the clan and his village community. Cameraman Dawa Lepcha followed Meyrak and recorded his daily life and rituals between 2003 and 2010.

director

Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Gangtok, Sikkim, India

editor

Dawa Tshering Lepcha

Tag

Sikkim, Spiritualism, Possession, Traditional Medicine, Buddhism, Tantricism , Shaminism

producer

Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Gangtok, Sikkim, India

distributor

Dawa Tshering Lepcha

Language

Sikkimese

Location

Lepcha

Extent

01:14:48

Date

2011

Publisher

Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Gangtok, Sikkim.