Dhekap Festival

Dhekap Festival is a festival recorded around Marpha.

Category: Festivals

It is as though the spirit of Michael Jackson enters the bodies of monks in various monasteries for they perform masked dance during the Dhekep festival. On certain days during October/ November people gather in the courtyard of their local gompa and witness the ecstatic masked dance of the monks. It coincides with the Tihar festival of the Hindus.