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Tibetan New Year When: 1st-3rd day of the 1st month of the Tibetan Calendar (this falls in late January to mid-February, depending on the year)Known as "Losar", this is Tibet's greatest festival, and is a time for feasting, song and...
Great Prayer Festival When: 4th-11th day of the 1st month Tibetan Calendar (this festival usually begins in February)Known as Monlam, this is the grandest religious festival in Tibet. The monks of Drepung...
Butter Lamp Festival (Chunga Choepa) When: 15th of the first month on Tibetan CalendarThis grand festival falls on the last day of the Great Prayer Festival, and celebrates...
Saka Dawa Festival When: 15th day of the fourth month on Tibetan calendarThe 15th day of the fourth month in the Tibetan calendar is a day when Sakyamuni was...
Shoton Festival When: 1st-5th days of the seventh month in the Tibetan calendarThe festival is celebrated in the summer, usually about the middle of August, after a...
Bathing Festival When: first ten days of the 7th month in the Tibetan calendarThis festival is known as "Gamariji" in Tibetan, which refers to the planet Venus....