11/14/2010

Baby Naming Ceremony & Puja in Seattle's Bhutanese Refugee Community

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tns_ywpAimYendofvid
[starttext]My friends Nandi and Falguna welcomed their second child into this world recently and this video was shot 11 days after birth at the ceremony where a Hindu priest, consulting the babies astrological charts on its day of birth, gives a name representing that information. The birth name was Yesika, a Nepali name not related to the American name Jessica, and the priest gave the name Prasna. To learn more about this community of Bhutanese Refugees settled in Seattle, watch this longer video I made about their journey from the refugee camp they lived in in Nepal for 18 years to their new lives here in Seattle's Rainier Valley.
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