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Jakri

Jakri – Series 8

A set of video images from Bhutan of a spiritual healer, Jakri.

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Format: DV 720×576

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A Jakri is a practitioner with beliefs and practices regarding communication with the spiritual world.

Its is believed that Jakris are intermediaries or messengers between the human world and the spirit worlds. Jakris are said to treat ailments by mending the soul. Alleviating traumas affecting the soul restores the physical body of the individual to balance and wholeness.

The Jakri also enters supernatural dimensions to obtain solutions to problems afflicting the community. Jakris may visit other worlds to bring guidance to misguided souls and to ameliorate illnesses of the human soul caused by foreign elements.

The Jakri operates primarily within the spiritual world, which in turn affects the human world. The restoration of balance results in the elimination of the ailment.

Jakris belong to many ethnic Nepali communities in Bhutan.

Jakri

Jakri – Series 7

A set of video images from Bhutan of a spiritual healer, Jakri.

Format: DV 720×576

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A Jakri is a practitioner with beliefs and practices regarding communication with the spiritual world.

Its is believed that Jakris are intermediaries or messengers between the human world and the spirit worlds. Jakris are said to treat ailments by mending the soul. Alleviating traumas affecting the soul restores the physical body of the individual to balance and wholeness.

The Jakri also enters supernatural dimensions to obtain solutions to problems afflicting the community. Jakris may visit other worlds to bring guidance to misguided souls and to ameliorate illnesses of the human soul caused by foreign elements.

The Jakri operates primarily within the spiritual world, which in turn affects the human world. The restoration of balance results in the elimination of the ailment.

Jakris belong to many ethnic Nepali communities in Bhutan.

Hindu Wedding

Hindu Wedding (Bael Karma) – Series 69

A set of Bael Karma – wedding video images from Bhutan.

Format: DV 720×576

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In Hinduism, the Bael tree is very sacred, used in worship of the God Shiva.

A Bael karma is a ceremony in which pre-adolescent Hindu girls are ‘married’ to a bael fruit, which is a symbol of the god Shiva, ensuring that the girl becomes and remains fertile.

It is believed that if the girl’s husband dies later in her life, she is not considered a widow because she is married to Shiva and so already has a husband that is believed to be still alive. As a widow she would not be permitted to wear colour, make-up or jewellery and often would have a diminished position in society or may be expected to offer herself on the funeral pyre of her disease husband.

In Bhutan the Pradhan caste follow the tradition of Bael karma for girls which takes the form of a full marriage ceremony performed on an auspicious date by the Brahmin.