Question

what do you mean by charya ?​

Answer 1

Answer:

In one of the old vacant rooms of the Maitri Bodhisattva Mahavihar (Jamo Baha), Jamal, young Charya dance students rummage through their plastic bags to set up for their daily prayers. Each has a brass plate in which they carefully organise the ritualistic elements of their puja. The plates include incense sticks, rice, yellow and red vermillion powder, water in a conch shell and a butter lamp. The students then spread a red cloth the size of a big handkerchief over the floor and draw a mandala—nine circles inside a triangle. Peculiarly, this is not an invocation session, but just a 10-minute orison before they begin Charya dance lessons.

“They are making the dharma dhatu mandala, the philosophical representation of how the universe functions, as Charya dance is a spiritual dance form that conforms to a discipline; we cannot start dancing without worshipping the mandala,” says Yagya Man Pati Bajracharya, the dance instructor. “And this is the foundation of the dance.”

Charya dance is an ancient dance form that used to be exclusively performed by Bajracharyas within the Newar community. Once on the verge of extinction, the traditional dance seems to have attracted an upsurge of students lately. But it wasn’t just a lack of interest from the young dancers that pushed this artform to the sidelines, its deep roots to religious and cultural values and unwillingness of the community to share it with wider society can be blamed too. In recent years, however, the dance form seems to have transcended its community and has become a relatively accessible artform.

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Answer 2

Explanation:

Charya meaning- A man of good character.

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