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Festivals>Festivals in March
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Mar 1: Fullmoon day of Tabaung
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The Spectacled Image Festival
Location: Shwedaung, Pyay
3-day festival ending Mar 1 The only image that wears glasses. The spectcles are offered in donation to the image.
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Mar 1: Fullmoon day of Tabaung
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Home-Coming Ceremony
Location: Taungbyone, Mandalay
Originally held to commemorate the day King Anawrahta returned from his Yunan expedition. Low-key spiritual ceremony.
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Mar 1: Fullmoon day of Tabaung
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Title-Decoration Ceremony
Location: Kaba-aye Hillock
Members of The Religious Order and laymen are decorated with title for their achievements. A large-scale offering of provisions to monks by various communities in the evening .
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Mar 1: Fullmoon day of Tabaung
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Palaung Bonfire Ceremony
Location: Palaung villages, Kalaw
Firewood stacked up high on a tower and burnt while Palaung pray for more heat to dry up their trees and bushes which have been freshly cleared to plrepare ground for new farmland.
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Mar 10: 9th waning day of Tabaung
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Boe-boe-gyi Ceremony
Location: Ah-lone, Monywa
5-day ceremony ending Mar 15.
9th Waning day- attending a nat audience.
10th Waning day- bonfire ceremony
11th Waning day- village leaders' homage to the nat
13th Waning day- pacifying the nat
14th Waning day- offering food
Boe-boe-gyi is believed to have mastered high level alchemical practices and to have expired to become a nat.
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Mar 24: 8th Waxing day of Tagu
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Shew-maw-daw Festival
Location: Bago
13-day ceremony ending April 5 Theatrical artists perform on stage with full force to show their competitive edge over their counterparts and to win future performance contracts.
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