Tamang’s also
perform, on rare occasions, a ritual known as "phola Ihasu", a kind
of feast of merit in honor of a clan god. This is extremely
expensive. When proper Lamas perform it they avoid animal sacrifices of the
type that the "Jhankri" priest would do, but they give a lavish feast
to the villagers and make enormous figures of cooked rice. A "phola
lhasu" can be given either by one individual family or by all the members
of a clan resident in one village.
