Festivals

November 16, 2016

Monlam Festival

This is the greatest religious festival in Tibet. Originated from Tsongkpa in 1409, the founder of the Gelukpa sect. Monks from the Three Great Monastery of Tibet assemble in Jokhang for prayer to Shakyamuni’s imaThe Great Prayer Festivalge as if it were the living Buddha.According to the legend, in the first month of the year,...
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November 16, 2016

Ling Ka Festival

The Tibetans are a people whose love of nature has given rise to a special national custom, the Lingka Festival. The fifth month by the Tibetan calendar is the best season for Lingka, so people leave their houses and put up tents in the thick forest in Lingka, and happily enjoy the charity of nature....
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November 16, 2016

Horse Racing Festival

Horse race and arrow shooting are popular sports on the vast expanse of grassland in Tibet, which has a history of more than 500 years in the regular horse racing festival ceremony, starting from Gyantse in back Tibetan area. During the year of 1408, In memory of the local King Rapten Kunsang, the festival falls...
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March 10, 2018

Nyingchi Peach blossom festival

Nyingchi Peach Blossom Festival is the annual tourism event in Tibet. Starting from 2002, Nyingchi hold a peach Blossom convention to celebrate the blooming peach flower. Peach Blossom covers whole Nyingchi region. The celebration start from late March. During that time, it attract countless tourist from different part of world, a large number of them want...
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August 11, 2018

Shoton ( yogurt) Festival

In Tibetan, “sho” means “Yoghurt” and “ton” means “banquet”. So Shoton Festival is also called the ‘Shoton Yogurt Festival’. Subsequently, as the activities of the Shoton Festival gradually changed into an activity with Tibetan opera as a major part, so people also called it the Tibet Opera Festival. Shoton Festival originates from the 11th century. Shoton...
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Horse racing Festival Tibet
August 11, 2018

Gyangtse Horse Racing Festival

Gyantse Horse Race Festival originated since the 15th century, the festival takes place when the pasture turns green and lush. Hundreds of horsemen dress  up themselves and their horses to take part in thrilling horse racing. The annual horse racing festival is held on the sixth lunar month of the Tibetan calendar. Legend says that...
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May 1, 2021

Tibetan Festivals

Tibetan Festivals in first Lunar Month The Great Prayer Festival (Mon-lam) This is the greatest religious festival in Tibet. Originated by TsongKhapa in 1409, the founder of the Geluk sect. Monks from the Three Great Monastery of Tibet assemble in Jokhang for prayer to Shakyamuni’s image as the living Buddha. Read Details The Large Dharma...
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Buddha statue
May 13, 2021

Saga Dawa – The month of Veggie, Most important month of Buddhist world

Saga Dawa, Tibetan name for the Fourth month of Tibetan Lunar Calendar. This month in Tibetan Buddhism, is the most auspicious month of Whole Year. In this month Buddha Shakyamuni was birth, enlightenment, Nirvana. Three auspicious day fall in this month. So during Saga Dawa, most of the monasteries in Tibet hold special Prayer and...
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