The Tawang Monastery/ Cchau Dance

The Tawang Monastery With the image of the Buddha, The prayer hall and the library Taking us to the days of yore When the monastery was founded In Arunachal Pradesh overlooking The borders and beyond At the foothills under the canopy of Blue, blue skies and green surroundings. Cchau Dance How can it be gods and goddesses Landing from heaven And dancing before With the masks put over And the folk artistes performing? Appalled to see Brahma, Vishnu, Maheshwara, Durga, Mahishasura, Kartik, Ganesh, Lakshmi, Saraswati Enacting the Mashiamardini scene With a lance into the hands And seated upon a lion And Mahishasura arising out of a buffalo. The folk singers and musicians singing And the artistes enacting on land.