2017 & 2018 Tibetan Festivals Calendar Tibetan Festivals 2018 Solar 2017 Solar Region Related Tour Itinerary Calendar Calendar Tibetan New Year Feb.16 Feb.27 TAR 7 Days Tibet New Year Festival Tour ( The most important ) (Celebrate the festival with local Tibetans) Samye Cham Dance Festival Feb.25 N/A Samye Contact us to tailor your own trip Monastery Butter Lantern Festival Mar.2 Mar.12 Jokhang Contact us to tailor your own trip Monastery Tsurphu Cham Dance Festival May.24 Jun.5 Tsurphu Contact us to tailor your own trip Monastery Saga Dawa Festival May.29 Jun.9 TAR 15 Days Tour Kailash in Saga Dawa Festival (The holiest one) ( Circle around Mt. Kailash for worship) Drigung Cham Dance Festival Jun.10 Jun.18 Drigung Contact us to tailor your own trip Monastery Tashilhunpo Thangka Festival Jun.26 Jul. 8 Tashilhunpo 8 Days Tashilhunpo Festival Tour Monastery (Participate various religious events ) Universal Prayer Day Jun.28 Jul.9 TAR Contact us to tailor your own trip Yangpachen Monastrey Cham Jul.12 N/A Yangpachen Contact us to tailor your own trip Dance Festival Monastrey Chokor Duchen Festival Jul.16 Jul.27 TAR Contact us to tailor your own trip Gyangtse Horse Racing Festival Jul.20 N/A Gyangtse 7 Days Gyantse Damar Festival Tour Ganden Thangka Festival Jul.27 Aug.1 Gandan Contact us to tailor your own trip Monastery Nagqu Horse Racing Festival Aug.10 N/A Nagqu 8 Days Tibet Nagqu Horce Racing Festival Budget Travel by Train Shoton Festival Aug.11 Aug.21 TAR 5 Days Shoton Festival Experience Tour (The most popular ) (Experience the grandest festival to Tibetans) Drepung Monastrey Lhoobhum Aug.18 N/A Drepung Contact us to tailor your own trip Festival Monastrey Drak Yerpa Monastrey Cham Aug.20 N/A Drak Yerpa Contact us to tailor your own trip Dance Festival Monastrey Damxung Horse Racing Festival Aug.20 N/A Damxung Contact us to tailor your own trip Bathing Festival Sept.16 Sept.6 TAR Contact us to tailor your own trip Ongkor Festival End of Sept N/A TAR Contact us to tailor your own trip Buddha's Descent Day Oct. 31 Nov.10 TAR Contact us to tailor your own trip Kongpo and Ngari Area's New Nov.8 Nov.19 Kongpo & Ngari Contact us to tailor your own trip Year Festival Palden Lhamo Festival Nov.23 Dec.3 Lhasa Contact us to tailor your own trip Tsongkhapa Butter Lamp Festival Dec.2 Dec.12 Lhasa 5 Days Gaden Ngachen Chenmo Festival Tour (Join the commemoration of Tsongkapa) Tibet Vista, Pioneer of Tibet Tourism for Global since 1984! For more information, please contact us [email protected] or 86-28-85552138. Tibetan Festivals in Details: Tibetan New Year Butter Lantern Festival Tsurphu Cham Dance Festival Tibetan New Year, the traditional New Year All the lanterns surrounding ancient Barkor Cham dance, also called Qiangmu in for all the Tibetans, is one of the most Street are made of butter oil, flour and kinds Tibetan language, is one of the major important festivals celebrated by monks of dyestuff. When the night comes, events in summer dharma assembly at and ordinary people altogether. All kinds of hundreds of thousands of butter lanterns Tsurphu Monastery. It’s a traditional foods have been already prepared on the would be lighted up at the same time and religious dance performed by Tibetan Tibetan New Year’s Eve. Gutu, a special colorful statues are extremely lifelike. The Buddhists. The ceremony has already been food for Tibet New Year, is usually filled spectacular statues of gods, figures, animals hold for thousands of years and varied with with various kinds of stuffs, including stone, and plants, magnificent or exquisite, and specific contents. Monks would wear robes pepper, charcoal, etc. thousands of brilliant butter lanterns light with masks on and equip themselves with the whole street. colorful ribbons and shields. Saga Dawa Festival Drigung Cham Dance Festival Tashilhunpo Thangka Festival Saga Dawa Festival is one of the holiest Drigung Cham Dance Festival is held in Tashilhunpo Thangka Festival has a history festivals for Tibetan Buddhists as three summer dharma assembly at Drigung of more than 500 years. Three different memorable events coincide on the same Monastery for commemorating its founder, thangkas would be unfurled respectively so day: Sakyamuni’s birth, enlightenment and Jigten Sumgön. Cham dance can be as to remind people to cherish the past, nirvana. A swarm of sincere Tibetan performed by a single, a couple or groups enjoy happy lives and hold hope for the Buddhists would circle around Jokhang and has been classified as National future during three days. Monastery and Barkhor Street. Intangible Cultural Heritage. Buddha's Sermon Festival Shoton Festival Buddha's Descent Day On Buddha's Sermon Festival, Tibetans would go to monasteries nearby, chant Since shoton means yogurt, Shoton Festival It’s said that Buddha's descent from heaven sutras and light the butter lamps. Here you with abundant activities, also named Yogurt happened after preaching to his mother on can gain a strong sense of religions. In Festival, is one of the most solemn Tibetan Sep.22nd. Since then, countless pilgrims order to celebrate this day, Tibetans would festivals. A grand Tibetan opera and would swarm into Jokhang Monastery and wear the brand new clothes one day ahead Buddhist ceremony would be held on this Barkhor Street and pray for greeting him and pray at the nearby monasteries for the day. again on that day. god blessing. Tibet Vista, Pioneer of Tibet Tourism for Global since 1984! For more information, please contact us [email protected] or 86-28-85552138. Tibetan New Year in Kongbo Area Palden Lhamo Festival Tsongkhapa Butter Lamp Festival Long time ago, Tibet has undergone a large Palden Lhamo Festival has been a special The Butter Lamp Day is a festival to scale invasion, but the locals were not so day for Tibetan women. They would get up commemorate Tsong Khapa who was the strong to resist the enemies. At this critical earlier than usual, go to Barkhor Street for Buddhism reformer and found the Gelugpa moment, Kongbo people sent out an army burning aromatic plant and pray, and then sect. Lots of activities would be held on to support the locals to defend their worship Palden Lhamo, the protection god 25th October in the Tibetan calendar. homeland together. Before departing for of Lhasa city, at Jokhang Monastery. On this When darkness falls, butter lamps would be the frontier, the soldiers were worried that day, all their wishes would come true and lighted up in every home and people would they would miss the chance to taste they also have a special privilege to ask gifts pray for intelligence, peace, luck and highland barley wine and refreshments as it from men even if they are strangers. happiness sincerely. was already September. As a consequence, Kongbo people had Tibetan New Year on October 1st in advance. Tibet Vista, Pioneer of Tibet Tourism for Global since 1984! For more information, please contact us [email protected] or 86-28-85552138..