April 3 & 4 Paro Tsechu Festival One and half days attending the Paro Tsechu, the annual religious dance festival in honor of Guru Rinpoche, the Second Buddha and founder of Tantric Buddhism. Eleborate, spellbinding masked dances at the festival are performed by specially trained monks and lay monks. These dance festivals revive the people spiritually and in many ways refine them culturally because the dances communicate moral lessons, and both the performer and the observer benefit from the exchange. The Bardo dances, the main event of the festival, serve as a reminder to people of their future destiny depending on their past and present deeds. The dance of the Stag enacts the tale of a hunter who was converted to Buddhism and gave up hunting.