|
Festival
|
Date
|
Tibetan calendar
|
for what?
|
Losar
Tibetan New Year |
Feb 13 |
1/1 |
A Happy New Year!
Tashi Delek! |
Monlam
Great Prayer Festival |
Feb 16-27 |
1/4-15 |
New year ceremonies are held in monasteries.
"Monlam Chenmo" of Lhasa has been prohibited
by Chinese authorities |
Chotrul
Duechen
(Cho-nga choepa)
Butter Lamp Festival |
Feb 27 |
1/15 |
Celebrating Buddha's Miracle Day with butter
lamps
and butter sculptures |
| Saga
Dawa |
May 13- Jun 26 |
4/15 |
Buddha Shakyamuni's birth, enlightenment
and Parinirvana |
Tashi
Lhunpo
Thangka Festival |
Jun 24-26
|
5/15-
|
A huge thangka is shown at Tashi Lhunpo monastery,
Shigatse. |
Gyantse
Arrow Shooting Festival |
Jun 30
|
?
|
Anual festival at Gyantse |
Shoton
Yoghurt Festival |
Aug 8-15 |
6/30- |
The great thangka is shown at Drepung and
Sera monastery.
Tibetan opera contest is hold at Norbulingka. |
| Bathing
Week |
Sep 8-14 |
7-8 |
Washing away the grime by bathing in rivers |
Onkor
Harvest Festival |
?
|
8/1-
|
Farmers' event including horse racing.
Dates depend on villages. |
Balha-xizhuk
Goddess Festival
|
|
Oct 15 |
During the Goddess Festival, Tibetans, especially
Tibetan women, would gather in Lhasa around the Jokhang Temple to
pray for happy marriage and true love. |
Kongpo
Festival
Kongpo New Year |
Nov 5
|
?
|
Tibetan New Year celebration in Kongpo area |
Tsongkapa
Festival
(Nga cho Chenmo)
(Butter Lamp Festival) |
Dec 29 |
10/25 |
Death of Tsongkapa, the founder of Gelugpa
order |
Gutor
(Nganpa guzom) |
Mar 1, 2003 |
12/29 |
averting Nine bad Omens and the negativity
of the old year |
