www.tibettravel.org [email protected] Tibetan Festivals and Events Calendar 2014 In Tibetan In Solar Festivals or Events Main Attractions Calendar Calendar To celebrate the new year, Lamas are chanting and Tibetan New Year passing fire torches through the crowds. People are 1st of the first March 02, 2014 (Recommended Tour) cheering for the coming new year by dancing, Tibetan month singing, and merrymaking. It is the last high tide of the celebrations of Tibetan Butter Lantern New Year. People go to pray in temples and 15th of the first Festival monasteries. Lamas show the butter sculptures March 16, 2014 Tibetan month (Recommended Tour) shaped in images of deities, animals, plants, and human figures. It is also known as Gyantse Horse Racing Festival. Contests in early times included horse race, archery, Gyantse Damar 10th of the and shooting on gallop followed by a few days' Festival fourth Tibetan June 08, 2014 entertainment or picnicking. Nowadays, the (Recommended Tour) month activities are enriched by ball games, track and field events, folk songs and dances, barter trade, etc. Tsurphu Monastery 10th of the Ritual dancing carried out by monks, unfolding of a Festival fourth Tibetan June 08, 2014 great Thangka. (Recommended Tour) month Sakyamuni’s Enlightenment day. Huge numbers of 15th of the Saga Dawa Festival pilgrims walk Lhasa’s Lingkor circuit and Mt. fourth Tibetan June 13, 2014 (Recommended Tour) Kailash Kora. month Celebration lasts for 2 or 3 days, a special ceremony 26th of the Drigung-til Festival and cham dancing will be held in Drigung-til fourth Tibetan June 23, 2014 (Recommended Tour) Monastery. month Celebrated for 3 days. Different portraits of Buddha Tashilhunpo Festival 13th of the fifth are exhibited each day. Cham dancing will be held July 10, 2014 (Recommended Tour) Tibetan month inside the monastery. Samye Festival Celebrated for 2 or 3 days. Religious ceremonies and 15th of the fifth July 12, 2014 (Recommended Tour) cham dancing will be held in Samye Monastery. Tibetan month This festival celebrates Buddha’s first sermon at Chokor Duchen Sarnath near Varanasi in India. Pilgrims climb the 4th of the sixth Festival July 31, 2014 peak behind Drepung Monastery and also the ridge Tibetan month (Recommended Tour) from Parbonka to the Dode Valley. Ganden Monastery Ganden Monastery displays its 25 holiest relics 15th of the August 10, Festival which are normally locked away. A large offering sixth Tibetan 2014 Tibet Travel Org CITS (China International Travel Service) Chengdu Office：Tel (+86)-28-85552138 Fax: (+86)-28-85544588 Add: F11, Unit 1, Building 1, Cheng Nan Guo Ji Mansion, #19, South Section 4,1st Ring Road, Chengdu, China Urgent Contact: 86-015328001060(24 Hours) www.tibettravel.org [email protected] (Recommended Tour) ceremony accompanies the unveiling. month At dawn, a huge Thangka will be unfolded at 30th of the Shotun Festival August 25, Drepung Monastery. Lamas perform opera in the Sixth Tibetan (Recommended Tour) 2014 main courtyard. month Celebrated in Northern Tibet’s grassland. Various Naqu Horse Racing activities are held in the grassland of Naqu, such as August 10, Festival - horserace, yak race, tug of war, lifting stones and 2014 (Recommended Tour) Tibetan operas. 8th of the Drepung Festival Celebrated for 2 or 3 days. Religious ceremonies and September 02, seventh Tibetan (Recommended Tour) cham dancing will be held in the monastery. 2014 month 10th of the Drak Yerpa Festival Celebrated for 2 or 3 days. Religious ceremonies and September 04, seventh Tibetan (Customize a Tour) cham dancing will be held in the monastery. 2014 month 15th of the Bathing Festival Lasting for seven days. Tens of thousands of Tibetan September 09, seventh Tibetan (Customize a Tour) men and women go to river or lake to take a bath. 2014 month Also called Tsonkhapa Festival. It celebrates the Gaden Ngachen death anniversary of Tsongkapa. Monasteries and 25th of the tenth December 16, Chenmo households burn countless butter lamps everywhere Tibetan month 2014 (Customize a Tour) and chant prayers. Also called Gutor. People begin to prepare for Tibetan New Year. Tibetan women will start to Ghost Exorcising 29th of the clean their house and prepare food. People also visit Festival twelfth Tibetan February, 2015 monasteries to worship Buddha and donate money (Customize a Tour) month or give gifts to monks. Tibetans also set off firecrackers to get rid of evil spirits. If you are now planning a tour to Tibet, feel free to contact us at [email protected]. Tibet Travel Org CITS (China International Travel Service) Chengdu Office：Tel (+86)-28-85552138 Fax: (+86)-28-85544588 Add: F11, Unit 1, Building 1, Cheng Nan Guo Ji Mansion, #19, South Section 4,1st Ring Road, Chengdu, China Urgent Contact: 86-015328001060(24 Hours) .