Tibetan festivals information

In Tibet, the Tibetan calendar lags approximately four to six weeks behind the solar calendar. For example, the Tibetan First Month usually falls in February...

The Tibetan people (Tibetan: བོད་པ་, Wylie: bod pa, THL: bö pa) are an East Asian ethnic group native to Tibet. Their current population is estimated...

Losar (Tibetan: ལོ་སར་, Wylie: lo-sar; "new year") also known as Tibetan New Year, is a festival in Tibetan Buddhism. The holiday is celebrated on various...

influences. Tibetan festivals are a high source of entertainment and can include many sports such as yak racing. Tibetans consider festivals as an integral...

Burmese, Tibetan, Indian, Nepalese, Bhutanese, Chakma, Marma and Barua festivals often show the influence of Buddhist culture. Pagoda festivals in Myanmar...

prayer halls, large appliqué thankas for temporary display during Tibetan festivals on thangka walls, and sand mandalas, also temporary. Painters and...

on the Tibetan Lunar Calendar Losoong falls on the 1st day of the 11th month, when farmers celebrate the harvest. It is a traditional festival of the...

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Ongkor Festival (Standard Tibetan: འོང་སྐོར་, Wylie: 'ong skor, or Serkor (སེར་སྐོར་) in some dialects) is one of the most important Tibetan festivals of...

Buddhist Tibetan festivals may include the traditional cham dance, which is also a feature of some Buddhist festivals in India and Bhutan. Many festivals of...

Tibetan Freedom Concert is the name given to a series of socio-political music festivals held in North America, Europe and Asia from 1996 onwards to support...

Monlam, also known as The Great Prayer Festival, falls on the 4th to 11th day of the 1st Tibetan month in Tibetan Buddhism. The event of Monlam in Tibet...

Tibetans. Tibet has various festivals, many for worshipping the Buddha, that take place throughout the year. Losar is the Tibetan New Year Festival....

The Sho Dun Festival (Tibetan: ༄༅། ཞོ་སྟོན།; Chinese: 雪頓節; pinyin: Xuědùn Jié), commonly known as the Shoton or Yogurt Festival or Banquet since "Sho"...

Tashi delek (Tibetan: བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས, Wylie: bkra shis bde legs, Tibetan pronunciation: [tʂáɕi tèle]) is a Tibetan expression used to greet, congratulate...

While the Tibetan plateau has been inhabited since pre-historic times, most of Tibet's history went unrecorded until the introduction of Tibetan Buddhism...

traditional festivals of the Miao people, including the New Year of the Miao, 8 April, the Dragon Boat Festival, the New Year's Eating Festival, and the...

Tibetan Buddhism is a form of Buddhism practiced in Tibet, Bhutan and Mongolia. It also has a sizable number of adherents in the areas surrounding the...

the Tibetan language. The festival is celebrated for two days, with different kinds of rituals, ceremonies, music & Cham Dance. Thikse Gustor Festival in...

regional festivals, commerce festivals, film festivals, folk festivals, carnivals, recurring festivals on holidays, and music festivals. Music festivals are...

five days of the Galdan Namchot festival and continues till the Dosmoche festival in February). Ladkahi's follow the Tibetan lunar calendar. Historically...

Ladakh. Some festivals of Ladakh are: Hemis Festival - Hemis Monastery has an annual festival named after it. Losar - Losar, also known as Tibetan New Year...

chen) is one of the four Buddhist festivals commemorating four events in the life of the Buddha, according to Tibetan traditions. Lhabab Düchen occurs...

The Golden Star Festival or the Bathing Festival is a festival held in Tibet falling between the 7th and 8th month of the Tibetan Calendar (August–September)...

companies take groups of tourists throughout the different Tibetan villages hosting horse festivals. This benefits the nomads' economy as well as that of the...

Tibetan cuisine includes the culinary traditions and practices of the Tibetan people in the Tibet region. The cuisine reflects the Tibetan landscape of...

The Tibetan Army (Tibetan: དམག་དཔུང་བོད་, Wylie: dmag dpung bod) was the armed forces of Tibet from 1913 to 1959. It was established by the 13th Dalai...

dance (Tibetan: འཆམ་, Wylie: 'cham) is a lively masked and costumed dance associated with some sects of Tibetan Buddhism and Buddhist festivals. The dance...

called Tibetan: འབྲི་, Wylie: bri, Tibetan: འབྲི་, Wylie: dri or Tibetan: གནག, Wylie: g.nag in Tibetan and Tibetan: ཧཡག་མོ་, Wylie: hYag-mo in Balti....