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Women sell 'Liangfen' which is also known as laping by Tibetans, is a spicy cold noodle dish served as a Tibetan street food during Kalachakra festival in Bodhgaya, Bihar, India. Liangfen, also spelled liang fen, is a Chinese dish consisting of starch jelly that is usually served cold, with a savory sauce, often in the summer. It is most popular in northern China, including Beijing, Gansu, and Shaanxi, but may also be found in Sichuan and Qinghai. In Tibet it is called laping and is a common street vendor food. The word kalachakra means cycles of time, and the Kalachakra system presents three such cycles -- external, internal and alternative. The external and internal cycles deal with time as we normally know it, while the alternative cycles are practices for gaining liberation from these