Tao Ordination in Yao Mien village Ban Jhongka in Muang Sing district, Luang Namtha province, Laos Photo Gallery by kees5 at pbase.com

Tao Ordination in Yao Mien village Ban Jhongka in Muang Sing district, Luang Namtha province, Laos

While visiting the village of JhongKa near Muang Sing, I came across a ceremony to ordinate 4 new priests in the Tao religion. The village people are of the Yao Mien subgroup. I am very grateful to the kindness of the local people to allow me to record this ceremony for posterity.

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christian		14-Apr-2011 16:29
hallo i wish also to become a taoist priest

Taramorn		17-Dec-2010 05:07
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kees5		06-Oct-2010 23:30
Thank you. In fact the lady owning the house showed me a dvd sent by a relative in California of a celebration at a temple/community centre over there. Fascinating to see a culture in two such different settings.

Leland Wong		06-Oct-2010 08:28
Great images of the Iu Mien Kwa Dang ceremony in Laos. Many of the Iu Mien residing in the San Francisco Bay Area are from Muang Sing and Muang La

Guest		08-Oct-2009 20:02
Magical.

Paolo Peggi (aka Bracciodiferro)		12-Sep-2009 10:00
Excellent and colorful work,bravo! Vote!! Paolo

Guest		12-Sep-2009 06:38
good photos thank you for sharing..

kees5		12-Sep-2009 02:30
I am very happy to see that these photographs are being appreciated by the people I am hoping to reach. I take them to help the people get access to images of their culture in places where they sometimes cannot go. I hope to provide an archive for future generations. Thank you for your comments. It was a privilege for me to have been able to attend these ceremonies.

Guest		11-Sep-2009 03:32
This is great. This is our foundation, we all iumien should maintain our religion, traditon and culture. It's just so unique. We should priest or shamen to train more people to be a priest/shamen. This way we will have our religion in every country whereever mien people are. We feel special which we do not have to borrow from others.

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