1. Tibetan New Year
Tibetan New Year is the traditional new year of the Tibetan people, one of the grandest festivals in Tibet, the temple monks and lay people *** with the celebration of the festival. A family to do Kasai, set "Chema", drive away ghosts, eat "Gutu", backwater, pay respects to each other and other activities, similar to the importance of the Spring Festival in the Mainland.
2. Snowdon Festival
Snowdon Festival is the grandest and largest festival in Tibet. Xuedong Festival is the festival of eating yogurt, the people will give yogurt to the monks, requesting to touch the top of the blessing, and now gradually evolved into a set of traditional exhibition of Buddha, cultural and artistic performances, sports competitions, investment, economic and trade negotiations, commodity exhibitions and sales, tourism and recreation for the integration of the festival.
3. Wang Guo Festival
Wang Guo Festival is the Tibetan farmers to celebrate the harvest festival, popular in the Tibet Autonomous Region of Lhasa, Shigatse, Shannan and other places. "The festival is held in Lhasa, Shigatse, Shannan and other places in the Tibet Autonomous Region. The festival is held by circling around a field where a good harvest is expected, thus expressing prayers and blessings for a good harvest. Festival time with the changes in agricultural events around the changes, generally in the barley after the yellow ripe, two or three days before the start of the harvest held.
4. Bathing Festival
The Bathing Festival has a history of at least seven or eight hundred years in Tibet. In these seven days, from children to the elderly, all have to go down to the river to bathe, it is said that these seven days of the river water has eight advantages, that is, a sweet, two cool, three soft, four light, five clear, six does not stink, seven drink does not damage the throat, eight drink does not hurt the abdomen.
5. Fairy Festival
Fairy Festival is the biggest festival for women in Lhasa, they will get up early to dress up, and then go to the Barkhor Street in Lhasa simmering prayers to the Dazhao Temple for the goddess of Hatha wish. Another privilege for women is that they can ask for gifts or red envelopes from men around them, even strangers, and men are usually "smart" enough to give generously.
6. Ghee Lantern Festival
This night, the lanterns of the ancient Barkhor Street are dressed in a beautiful and magical world. Those made of ghee and flour plus a variety of dyes made of ghee lamps around the Barkhor Street, when the night comes, thousands of lamps at the same time, ghee lights up, ghee colorful sculpture suddenly come to life, so that the whole street glittering, brilliant.
7. Saga Dawa Festival
Saga Dawa Festival, also known as the Buddha's auspicious day, it is associated with the Buddha's life in three important events, that is: the birth of the Buddha, into the path of nirvana, is a three-period celebration of the auspicious day. For the faithful, it is a very extraordinary and sacred day. Lasts for a whole month, the Tibetan people are to turn the scriptures, burn incense, eat fasting rice, life release and other forms of commemoration of their hearts Sakyamuni.
8. Surrender Festival
It is said that this day is Shakyamuni in the "grieved heavenly palace" for his mother, Mrs. Moye said that after the teachings, return to earth's day, so it is called "heavenly descent" or "God descends! ". Later, the believers in order to commemorate this day, as well as sincere invitation to Shakyamuni incarnation to come back to earth, so every year, "Heaven Sent Festival" day, the temples are to be held activities.