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{{Short description|Sacred shrine of Umang Lai}}
'''Laishang'''<ref>{{Cite book |last=McDuie-Ra |first=Duncan |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1d8hb58 |title=Borderland City in New India |date=2016 |publisher=Amsterdam University Press |jstor=j.ctt1d8hb58 |isbn=978-90-8964-758-0 |editor-last=van Schendel |editor-first=Willem |editor-last2=Harris |editor-first2=Tina|quote=The Lai Haraoba, the ‘pleasing of the gods’, is a pre-Hindu festival said to be at the ‘heart’ of Meitei culture and worldview (Parratt and Parratt, 1997: xiv). The festival involves dance, music, oral poetry, flowers and other offerings, and spirit mediums that channel lai – female and male deities that are sacred and numinous...I was invited to attend a neighbourhood Lai Haraoba with my friend Anya and her family at Ima Khunthokhanbi Shanglen, a laishang (temple) on the edge of the DM College campus close to the centre of the city}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=23 October 2023 |title=Devotees throng Hiyanthang Lairembi amid call for no celebration |url=https://www.ifp.co.in/manipur/devotees-throng-hiyanthang-lairembi-amid-call-for-no-celebration |work=Imphal Free Press}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=20 April 2023 |title=Two persons involved in destruction of bridge near Mt Koubru arrested |url=https://www.ifp.co.in/6834/manipur-two-persons-involved-in-destruction-of-bridge-near-mt-koubru-arrested |work=Imphal Free Press}}</ref>or '''Laisang'''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Shakespear |first=J. |date=1913 |title=50. The Pleasing of the God Thangjing |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2788657 |journal=Man |volume=13 |pages=81–86|quote=These processions all converge on the Lai-sang of Thangjing and the gods and goddesses or their emblems are taken from the litters and carried _ inside the Lai-sang (god's house) and placed beside Thangjing. |doi=10.2307/2788657 |jstor=2788657 |issn=0025-1496}}</ref> or '''Khubam''' or '''Ebudhou Ebendhou Khubam'''{{efn|"Ebudhou" means male ancestor, "Ebendhou" means female ancestor and "khubam" means abode; "Umang" means forest and "Lai" means deity/ancestor}} is a [[shrine]] to a specific deity or ancestor in [[Sanamahism]]. These structures also serve very important role in [[Lai Haraoba]] ceremony. The usual annual Lai Haraoba ceremonies of various '''Umang Lai''' (forest deities) are performed inside Laisang of these ''Umang-lai'' (deities of the forest or jungle)<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Shakespear |first1=J. |last2=Hodson |first2=T. C. |date=1908 |title=106 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2839445 |journal=Man |volume=8 |pages=187–190 |quote=There are the Lam Lai, gods of the country side, who shade off into nature gods controlling the rain, the primal necessity of an agricultural community ; Umang Lai, or deities of the forest jungle; the Imung Lai, lords of the lives, the births, and the deaths of individuals: there are the tribal ancestors, the ritual of whose cult is a strange compound of magic and 'nature worship.|doi=10.2307/2839445|jstor=2839445 }}</ref>
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