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GUWAHATI
A 16-day festival to commune for satellite bid and the healing of humanity amid conflicts began successful Bhutan’s capital, Thimphu, connected Tuesday (November 4, 2025).
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk, the king of Bhutan, and Trulku Jigme Choedra, the country’s main abbot, ceremonially launched the Global Peace Prayer Festival (GPPF) astatine the Changlimithang crushed successful Thimphu.
The Royal Government of Bhutan is organising the festival.
One of the cardinal events of the festival is Jabzhi, a Vajrayana Buddhist ritual utilized for cleansing antagonistic karma and removing destructive forces. The Jabzhi, which started connected Tuesday (November 4), volition proceed till November 10.
“It is due that Jabzhi is being held arsenic an effectual counterweight, an obstacle remover, to everything seen and unseen that whitethorn artifact the blessed energies radiating from the planetary bid prayer,” a festival spokesperson said. The Jabzhi volition beryllium followed by the Kalachakra empowerment, which offers a glimpse of Shambhala, a mythical paradise of bid and tranquillity.
Ahead of the commencement of the GPPF, Bhutan’s Prime Minister, Tshering Tobgay, said that King Wangchuk conceived the GPPF to beryllium an lawsuit for bid connected earth, coinciding with the 70th birth day of Jigme Singye Wangchuk, the 4th King.
The 4th King abdicated his throne astatine the property of 51 and introduced ideology successful Bhutan, the past surviving Vajrayana kingdom successful the world.
The Prime Minister besides said the Government of India was supporting the GPPF. He thanked his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, for allowing ineffable relics of the Buddha to beryllium brought to Thimphu for the festival.
