TAMANG RITUAL - PHOLA LHASU

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.