People, do you want to know what festivals are in Tibet, you can actually go to these festivals when traveling in Tibet, or just plan to go to play near these festivals, in addition to viewing the beauty of the scenery, you can also experience the local style.
Tibetan New YearOrganized in: Lhasa, Kampa Tibetan area, Amdo Tibetan area
Tibetan time: January 1
Honorable time: February 5
This year's Tibetan New Year is on the same day as the Chinese New Year, i.e., February 5 on the Gregorian calendar. The Tibetan New Year activities begin on the first day of the first month of the Tibetan calendar and end on the fifteenth day, **** lasting for 15 days. During the New Year period, a variety of sports and recreational activities will be held in all parts of Tibet, such as weightlifting, horseback riding, archery, running and other competitive events, in the Potala Palace Square will also be held in the rich national characteristics of the song and dance performances, the masses dressed in colorful national costumes, take on the masks of different shapes and rich in national characteristics, together with the song and dance.
Merangmu prayers will be held inlocation: Lhasa, Kham, Amdo Tibetan area
Tibetan time: January 4 - January 25
Lunar time: February 8 - February 29
Merangmu prayers will also be called to summon the great puja, "Merangmu" for the meaning of prayer, yearning. Merangmu Prayer Puja is one of the most important festivals of the Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism, and one of the four major Buddhist events advocated by Master Tsongkhapa. The centerpiece of the Puja is the selection of the highest degree in Tibetan Buddhism, the "Larampa Geshe". Historically, the administrative power of Lhasa was taken over by the Iron Rod Lama of Drepung Monastery during the Puja.
Ghee Lantern FestivalOrganized by: Lhasa, Amdo Tibetan area
Tibetan time: January 15
Calendar time: February 19
Festival day, the Tibetan people live in the place will be put out of colorful ghee sculpture into the flowers, birds, fish and insects, and the figure of people, to celebrate the ghee lantern festival. About its origin there are two legends, one said that ZongKaBa to Lhasa DaZhao temple in the Buddha Shakyamuni gold statue offering ghee flowers and lamps, to ghee flowers and lamps to commemorate the Buddha Shakyamuni subdue the evil spirits. Another said, ghee lantern is to celebrate Buddha Shakyamuni and other sects to win the great debate.
Saga Dawa FestivalOrganized by: Lhasa, Kham Tibetan area, Amdo Tibetan area
Tibetan calendar time: April 15
Calendar time: June 17
On the Saga Dawa Festival, there are two ways of putting it: one says that it is a commemoration of the day of the attainment of enlightenment of Sakyamuni; the other says that it is a commemoration of the day of the arrival of the Princess of Wencheng in Lhasa. This day all over Tibet to hold religious commemorative activities. Tibetan people in Yunnan, some of them have to go to the Dharma Mountain in Weixi County pilgrimage, there is a "turn Ge La" (around the mountain) ceremony.
Saga Dawa Festival features:
Performing good deeds is a feature of the Saga Dawa Festival, so in this special festival, Lhasa along the streets can be seen everywhere along the believers kowtow, may be purely accumulation of blessings, but some are more in order to fulfill the heart of a certain wish.
In the Tibetan calendar, April 15, is the climax of the day of good deeds, starting in the early hours of the morning, there are people to do charity, this day as long as the encounter begging people, regardless of its identity is a monk or beggar, the Tibetans will be very happy to give alms, a lot of poor people will not be easy to let go of this day of the day of the good day, the Sagadawa Festival also has a different name: "poor people's day".
Generally speaking, Tibetans who usually love yak meat will eat vegetarian on the eighth and fifteenth days of the fourth month of the Tibetan calendar.
Show Buddha Festival
Organized in Lhasa and Shigatse
Tibetan Calendar: May 14-16
Lunar Calendar: July 14-16
Show Buddha is one of the most important ceremonies in Tibetan Buddhism. The whole process of the exhibition of Buddha is solemn, showing the Tibetan Buddhist believers to the Lord Buddha's incomparable piety and immense reverence. Three days before and after May 15 of the Tibetan calendar every year, in Zashilunbu Temple held a grand exhibition of Buddha activities, the original Buddha (Infinite Light Buddha), when the Buddha (Shakyamuni Buddha), the future Buddha (Qiangba Buddha) this three large-scale embroidery Buddha hanging in the 32-meter-high, bottom of the 42.5-meter-wide, on the 38-meter-wide, 3.5-meter-thick exhibition of the Buddha platform on the sunny side of the wall. Countless believers in the front and back, shoulder to shoulder, just to go to the exhibition of Buddha platform close worship Buddha, in order to get a greater blessing.
Zangmulin Jisang (Rinca Festival)Organized by: Lhasa, Chamdo, Sangye
Tibetan time: May 15
Calendar time: July 16
Zangmulin Jisang is said to be a commemoration of Master Lianhua, who was in the Year of the Monkey in May, subdued all the demons of the Tibetan land. Love of nature and can sing and dance Tibetan people in this day dressed in festive costumes, with barley wine and ghee tea and a variety of delicious food to the forest shade of the forest card, set up a tent, eat and drink while singing and dancing, enjoy the nature. Between the tents also invited each other, and folk artists to this show, this festival often extends for as long as January.
Snowdon FestivalOrganized by: Lhasa
Tibetan time: June 30
Lunar time: August 30-September 5
Snowdon Festival is a religious and cultural evolution, in which the Tibetan language "snow" in the "snow" for yogurt, "snow" for yogurt, "snow" for yogurt, "snow" for yogurt, "snow" for yogurt, "snow" for yogurt, "snow" for yogurt, "snow" for yogurt, "snow" for yogurt, "snow" for yogurt. It is initially the people in order to treat the monks, and later gradually evolved into a Tibetan opera will perform mainly. During the festival, people get together, sun Buddha, Tibetan opera, over the Linka equestrian performances and other activities, not only can people feast their eyes, the main thing is that you can be in the hustle and bustle, to feel which nurtures the peace of mind to find the answer about the faraway place.
Naqu Horse Racing FestivalOrganized in: Naqu
Tibetan Calendar Time: TBD
Lunar Calendar Time: August 10th-August 15th
Naqu Horse Racing Festival is one of the largest traditional festivals in the northern part of Tibet, where you can enjoy the national culture worshipped by the Tibetan people and the bravado and passion of the Tibetan compatriots. Horse Racing Festival is inherited from Gesar who held the custom of horse racing and archery before each expedition. Gesar himself is also through the horse race to win the way by the masses embraced as the king. Therefore, in the hero worship beliefs of the Tibetan people, strength, bravery and wisdom become the object of aspiration and worship, and become the symbol of measuring the value of men. This kind of worship customs and culture is y rooted among the Tibetan people.
Bathing FestivalOrganized by: Lhasa
Tibetan time: July 6-July 12
Lunar time: September 16
Bathing Festival, Tibetan compatriots of both sexes, young and old, to the nearby rivers and streams in the pain and pain in a bath, and play in the water to their heart's content. After the bath people light up the fire, burning hot ghee tea, drinking barley wine, eating sweet tsampa, talking about the past and present, playing string singing. Bathing Festival has more than 700 years of history, according to legend, in the very early days, Tibetan areas have a very high medical skills of the famous doctor, he in order to relieve people's pain, often for the people to cure the disease, save the lives of many patients. Because he had a hand to the sick, wonderful hands back to the spring of the medical skills, was honored as the king of medicine. Soon after the death of the king of medicine, the Tibetan area once suffered plague attack, the death of countless people and animals. People missed the King of Medicine more and more and hoped to be saved. One night, a dying patient in a dream to get the king of the medicine of revelation, said in the star when the high light, down the river bathing will be removed from the disease recovery. The patient was indeed restored to health after bathing. When the story spread, all the sick people jumped into the river to bathe, and all of them really recovered. Later, every year in the late summer and early fall, people would go to the nearby river to bathe, and over time, it became a bathing festival.
Wang Guo FestivalOrganized by: all over Tibet
Tibetan time: the end of July
Lunar time: the end of September
"Wang" Tibetan meaning crop, the Tibetan language is called "look forward to the card" or "Xingka". "fruit" is the meaning of the circle, meaning that around the crop in the hope of a good harvest. Every year, when the crops have been ripening everywhere, people use this unique ritual of turning the field to wish for a good harvest. Nowadays, although the fruit festival with the religious form of sacrificing to the gods, but has become the majority of Tibetan people pray for a good harvest in the process of the main folk entertainment and sports activities. In the Tibetan region of Lhasa, Shannan, Rikaze and other places have the custom of looking fruit festival, no exact time, just according to the crop maturity time.
Buddha Heavenly Descent FestivalOrganized by: all over Tibet
Tibetan calendar time: September 22
Calendar time: November 19
"Heavenly Descent Festival" or "descending to the mortal festival", the Tibetan language called "Lhagpa Duchen". On this day, the monks will follow the customary chanting for a day, to welcome the Buddha to return to earth, to promote the Dharma, universalization of all sentient beings. Tibetan Buddhism believes that the sky drop festival is one of the great festivals in Buddhism, but also the most auspicious day, in the day of the good and bad karma will be increased by a billion times, so the practitioner when to grasp the sky drop day, bodhicitta, offerings to the three jewels, giving to the living beings and other accumulations of net obstacles to complete the day, during the period of time, if you can * * * with the practice of all kinds of good karma, chanting, holding a mantra, releasing, lighting, giving, its virtue and blessing will be billions of times on the increase.
Auspicious Mother's DayOrganizing area: all over Tibet
Tibetan calendar time: October 15
Calendar time: December 12
Auspicious Mother's Day, the Tibetan language said "white to chase the day", also known as "fairy festival".
Every year on the 15th day of the 10th month of the Tibetan calendar, by the Mulu Monastery all the monks to the Lhasa Dazhaosha Temple of the protection of the king of the auspicious heavenly mother held a grand routine annual festival. Monks in the evening of the fourteenth day to welcome the image of the heavenly mother to the Shakyamuni Buddha Hall, and Shakyamuni Buddha sitting opposite. Fifteen early in the morning, when the rising sun, the monks with the head of the mother of heaven like to the Bajiao Street, many good men and women to the mother of heaven like the police offering hatha, after a series of séance activities, return to the Da Zhao Temple, the sky Su Yang like welcome to sit on the original throne. The day of the festival, in addition to the goddess can make a wish in front of the statue of the goddess, Tibetan girls will also be in groups of three or five, in the name of Goddess of worship in the Barkhor Street to find men to ask for money, and men this day is also particularly generous, will not not give.
Lantern FestivalOrganized by: Tibet
Tibetan calendar time: October 25
Calendar time: December 21
Lantern Festival is also known as the "five public festival", the Tibetan language called "Geden Aqu", is a festival in Tibet, Qinghai, China, and other parts of the world, and is the first of its kind in Tibet. Lantern Festival is to commemorate the Buddhist reformer, the founder of the Gelugpa school, master Tsongkhapa's death and activities. This day all belong to the sect of the size of the temple, the villages and villages of the herdsmen, both inside and outside the temple on the altar, the home of the scripture hall, point ghee lamps, day and night. During the festival of lights people will wear festive dress, gathered in front of the temple, listening to Buddhist masters chanting "six words of truth", like the gods pray, kowtow.