1, Snowdon Festival, is one of the important festivals of the Tibetan people in Tibet, held every year on the first of July, a period of four or five days. XueDong is the Tibetan translation, meaning "yogurt feast", so XueDong festival will be interpreted as drinking yogurt festival. According to the Tibetan Buddhism Gelukpa (yellow religion) regulations, the annual Tibetan calendar June 15 to July 30 for the period of prohibition, the size of the temple lamas are not allowed to go out, so as not to step on the death of small insects, to be released on July 30th after the ban can go down the mountain. Lama down the mountain, farmers and herdsmen take out yogurt dedication, the formation of the Snowdon Festival.
2, the big Buddha worship festival, is Tibet's Rikaze monks and laypeople every year in the Tibetan calendar in the fifth month of the Zashilunbu Temple held in the big Buddha worship festival. Zashilunbu (Tibetan translation "auspicious Sumeru mountain") temple, lamaism Gelukpa (yellow religion) the fourth largest temple. In Tibet, Rikaze Nisei day under the mountain, for the successive Panchen's residence.
3, prayer festival is the most solemn Tibetan region is both large-scale religious activities, but also folk festival activities, the Tibetan language called "morangchebo". In the state Tibetan area, there are two kinds of this kind of event, one is the prayer festival of Gelug sect; one is the original religion of Tibetans, the prayer festival of Benpo religion, these two prayer festival is the same, held twice a year, once in the lunar calendar June 15, once in the lunar calendar, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar to the third day of the first month of the first month of the first month of the first month of the first month of the first month of the first month of the lunar calendar. The prayer festival in the first month of the lunar calendar is more grand than the prayer festival in summer.
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To the Tibetan home guests, the host must first toast guests barley wine, the guest should first use the ring finger dipped in a little bit of wine popped up to the sky, three times in a row, as a sacrifice to the sky, the earth and ancestors, and then sip a mouthful of sip, the host will be in time to add to the full, three times, the fourth time to add to the full when you need to drink a cup of dry. Otherwise, the host will be upset and think that the guest does not know how to be polite or look down on him.
Guests into the house to sit down, the master must pour ghee tea to guests, guests need to wait for the master hands in front of the face, in order to take over to drink, can not drink their own end. When seated, to sit cross-legged; accept gifts, hands to receive; gifts, to bow and hands above the head; tea, wine, to be served with both hands, fingers can not be put into the bowl.
Drinking tea, the guest must wait for the host to hold the tea in front of him to reach out and drink, otherwise it is considered rude. When eating, pay attention to the food is not full mouth, chewing no sound, drink no sound, picking food does not cross the plate. Hospitality with mutton to the lower part of the spine of the sheep with the tail of a piece of meat is expensive, to honor the most respected guests.
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