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Juging Cham / The Stick Dance

Juging Cham / The Stick Dance The Juging cham (The stick dance) was founded by Tertoen Pema Lingpa to locate and points out evil forces or adversity. The dancers while dancing explore and point in all directions with their sticks. At the end all dancers then kneel down to the ground and pointed their sticks to the earth, but the chamjug indicates with his stick that the evil spirit is actually located inside the body and points to the heart three times. This is meant to demonstrate that it is our own delusions which are the real evil spirits that need to be subdued and transformed by following the truth of dharma. The stick dance also includes three main sections: the first section is a type of divination dance from where the malevolent spirit can be found, the middle section represents the search for evil spirits, and the final one is the pointing and locating of the malevolent spirit and finding of this within the mind. During this dance when the dance leader asks his assistant where is the evil spirit’s location is through indication of the stick while dancing, the chamjug replies with hand gestures that there is no spirit in all directions by using an empty hand gesture. They hold their sticks under their arms and clap their hands in order to symbolize destruction of the evil spirit and to awaken it, and then later all the dances will throw their sticks to the ground. After completion of these three section dance, the performances enter the changing room where they change their masks and hand emblems. It is during the stick dance that they are able to discover the evil spirits through realization and performing of this sacred dance. Description of the dance is extracted from Journal of Bhutan Studies authored by Khenpo Phuntsok Tashi 2014. Video from: Wangdue rabdey