What are the traditional Tibetan festivals?

There are many Tibetan festivals, basically every month. The first month of the Tibetan calendar is the month with the most and grandest festivals, in which festivals are celebrated almost every day. Tibetan festivals are the most important manifestation of Tibetan culture. Tibetan Buddhism has a history of more than 1,300 years in Tibet, China, and has become a part of the life of the Tibetan people. Tibetan festivals have a strong religious color due to its profound influence, and some have evolved into purely religious festivals.

Snowdon festival, is one of the important festivals of the Tibetan people in Tibet, the annual Tibetan celebration of July snowdon festival sun Buddha activities held on the first day of a period of four or five days. Snowdon is a Tibetan translator, meaning "yogurt feast", so Snowdon Festival is interpreted as a festival of drinking yogurt.

According to the Tibetan Buddhism Gelugpa (Yellow Religion) of the provisions of the Tibetan calendar June 15 to July 30 each year 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 insects, to be lifted 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.

Buddha worship festival, is Tibet's Rikaze monks and lay people every year in the Tibetan calendar in the fifth month in Zashilunbu Temple held a big Buddha worship festival. Zashilunbu (Tibetan translation of "auspicious Sumeru") Temple, Lamaism Gelugpa (Yellow Sect) the fourth largest temple. In Tibet, Rikaze Nisezhi mountain, for the successive Panchen's residence.

Prayer festival is the Tibetan region is the most grand both large-scale religious activities, but also folk festivals, 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 the Gelug sect; one is the original Tibetan religion, the prayer festival of the Benpo religion, the 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 first 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 first month of the lunar calendar.

Tibetan (Tibetan: ?) is one of the 56 ethnic groups in China, and is an aboriginal people of the Tibetan Plateau. Within China, they are mainly found in the Tibet Autonomous Region, Qinghai Province and the western part of Sichuan Province, Diqing in Yunnan Province, Gannan in Gansu Province and other areas, in addition to India, Bhutan, the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and other regions. Lhasa is the holy land in the hearts of Tibetans. The current Tibetan population is around 7.5 million worldwide, about 7 million within China (2016), and the population of ethnic Tibetans is conservatively estimated to be over 10 million.

The Tibetans have their own language and script. The Tibetan language belongs to the Tibetan branch of the Tibeto-Burman language family of the Sino-Tibetan language family, and is divided into three dialects: Weizang, Kham, and Amdo.

The Tibetans generally believe in Tibetan Buddhism. In the seventh century A.D., Buddhism was introduced into Tubo from Tianzhu, and has a history of more than 1400 years. The Tibetan people have created a splendid national culture, leaving an extremely rich cultural heritage in literature, music, dance, painting, sculpture and architectural art. The Tibetan carving skills are superb. In addition, Tibetan opera is unique, and Tibetan medicine is also an important heritage of mankind.