6. Ritual Journeys (2011)

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.
The film was awarded a special commendation by the panel of judges (Intangible Cultural Film Prize) at the 12th RAI International Film Festival held at UCL, London, June 2011.
Cinematography: Dawa Tshering Lepcha
Editing: Dawa Tshering Lepcha
Anthropologist and Project Coordinator: Anna Balikci-Denjongpa
Visual Anthropology Advisor: Prof. Asen Balikci
Produced by the Director, Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Gangtok, Sikkim, India
‘Ritual Journeys’ was screened at the following film festivals:
Film Festival of the Royal Anthropological Institute, London, June 2011 where it was awarded a special commendation by the panel of judges (Intangible Culture Film Prize category)
Freiburg Film Forum, Germany, June 2011
KIMFF, Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival, 8-12 December 2011
Worldfilm 2012, Tartu, Estonia, 19-25 March 2012
Musée du Quai Branly, Paris. Screened on 19 May 2012 within the context of the exhibition ‘Les Maitres du Desordre’
VI Moscow International Festival of Visual Anthropology “Mediating Camera”, Moscow, 8-12 October, 2012
SIEFF - Sardinia International Ethnographic Film Festival, Nuoro, 15-23 September 2012
DVDs of ‘Ritual Journeys’ are available at the Institute’s book shop

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Thank you so much for sharing this amazing video. This traditional tribal knowledge is big and very important - also for the western world. Here in Europe we are searching the old knowledge after having a break of hundreds of years when it was forbidden by law to heal with natural deitis and plant spirits because it was calles "devilish"... Our own healers where burned a lot, our land was taken by government or church long time ago... Today here slowly the young people begin to re open this treasure, they try to learn by other tribes, because we found out the materialistic world in fact is not all what we really need. More people get back to the roots of living simple and beeing connected to mother nature, getting self sufficient and proud about this. Ther is no more romantic illusion about living close to nature. Its a true fact that getting more "needs" in materialistic world brings more displeasure in the heart and soul of ourselves, all buddhist people know it too. Here in Europe people live materialistic so many hundred years, and what happened was destroying of nature and destroying and loss of satsifaction, the suffering of many people. Please keep this knowledge and love in your wonderful tribe. Thank you for beeing on this planet. Thank you for living this life and thank you for showing it.

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hail wodan

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Proud to be a lepcha❣️

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video shoot by Ren Director of Dhokbu Anum Dawa Lepcha Thank you so much Anum.

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Tremendous ethnographical treasure. Superbly collected. Thanks.

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Tokchee atim video jukbuka aun chejongbu ajhyo mun ka..

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Iam proud to be Lepcha
Lot of love n support
Keep going 😍❤️❤️❤️
Thanks for this
More expect ❤️❤️

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Documenting a people fading away from rhe face of the earth. Nice effort during the 2ks

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Proud to be lepcha. ❤️❤️❤️

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Genuinely a treasure

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State lepcha Sikkim video

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Kabilunchung

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1:08:16
What was that? 😳

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