The full moon day of the month of Shrawan (full moon day of Jylu-August), the day when this festival gets observed, is considered sacred all over Nepal. It is a time of deep spiritual significance, celebrated in different ways by different groups. The most widely accepted celebration model is for people to take a ritual bath and change their sacred thread. Everyone receives a string of yarn tied around their wrist from a Brahman as a protective mark for the whole year. The Nepalese, especially in the Newari community, prepare a special dish called kwati, which is mixed sprouted beans, on this day. The occasion is considered to be especially auspicious for bathing in the lakes such as Gosainkunda. One can also witness the pageantry of jhankris, the shamans, attired in their traditional costume, come to bathe at Kumbheshwor, in Patan, Nagarkot and at sacred lakes all over Nepal. Such Jhankris also visit the temple of Kalinchowk Bhagavati, the goddess at Kalinchowk, in the Dolkha district, where they go to pray for their healing powers, for they are the traditional healers of Hindu Nepalese villagers. However, the ancestral root of Jankri is the Bonpo, an ancient native religion of Tibet and one of the sects in present Tibetan Buddhism.
For us, our guests are everything. Atithi Devo Bhava or the guests are gods, and all of you exceeded the ceiling of the meaning of support. Your words are everything for us, thank you!
