Yak Dance of Arunachal Pradesh will be seen this Republic Day on the Rajpath

This Republic Day will be a special one for Arunachal Pradesh - the famous Yak Dance of the state will be seen this Republic Day as one of the tableau on the Rajpath in New Delhi. This Yak Dance has been selected for presentation during the forthcoming Republic Day parade on January 26.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 22 December 2016.

Yak dance is a famous pantomime of the Mahayana sect of Buddhism. The masked dancer represents the members of a family who discovered the Yak with the help of a magical bird hundreds of years ago. It is performed during the Losar festival and the dance represents the joy of the people upon finding the yak and their belief that performing the dance would relieve them of all their miseries.
Fifteen states and union territories have been selected this year to present their tableaux. Arunachal Pradesh is one of the selected states with only two other states from the northeast - Manipur and Tripura.


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