Tibetan traditional festival time

Little friends, do you want to know about Tibetan festivals? When traveling in Tibet, you can actually participate in these festivals or plan to visit them directly. Besides enjoying the beautiful scenery, you can also experience the local customs.

The Tibetan New Year

: Lhasa, Kangba Tibetan area, Amdo Tibetan area.

Tibetan calendar time: 65438+ 10 month 1.

Gregorian calendar time: February 5

This year's Tibetan New Year falls on the same day as the Spring Festival, that is, February 5 of the Gregorian calendar. Tibetan New Year's activities started at 65438+ 10/month and ended at 1 5, lasting 15 days. During the New Year, various cultural and recreational activities will be held throughout Tibet, such as weightlifting, horse riding, archery, running and other competitions. There will also be a song and dance performance with national characteristics in Potala Palace Square. People will wear gorgeous national costumes, masks with different shapes and national characteristics, and sing and dance together.

Moram Prayer Dharma Association

: Lhasa, Kangba Tibetan area, Amdo Tibetan area.

Tibetan calendar time: 65438+1October 4th-65438+1October 25th.

Gregorian calendar time: February 8-February 29

Meilangmu Blessing Dafa Association is also called Summoning Dafa Association. "Merangmu" means prayer and yearning, and it is a prayer for peace, happiness and health. The Langmu Prayer Ceremony is one of the most important festivals of the Gelug Sect of Tibetan Buddhism and one of the four major Buddhist activities advocated by Master Zong Kaba. The central content of the conference is to select Lalan Bagesi, the highest level of Tibetan Buddhism. Historically, the administrative power of Lhasa was taken over by Iron staff Lama of drepung monastery.

Butter sculpture Lantern Festival

Held in Lhasa and Amdo Tibetan areas.

Tibetan calendar time: 65438+1October 15.

Gregorian calendar time: February 19.

On that day, flowers, birds, fish, insects and figures carved with colored ghee will be displayed in Tibetan areas to celebrate the Lantern Festival carved with ghee. There are two legends about its origin. One is that Zong Kaba offered butter sculptures and lanterns to Sakyamuni, the golden Buddha of Jokhang Temple. Butter sculptures and lanterns are used to commemorate the demonization of the Buddha. There is also a saying that the butter sculpture lantern is to celebrate the victory of the great debate between Sakyamuni Buddha and other sects.

Sagadawa Festival

: Lhasa, Kangba Tibetan area, Amdo Tibetan area.

Tibetan calendar: April 15.

Gregorian calendar time: June 17

There are two opinions about Sagadawa Festival: one is to commemorate the day when Sakyamuni attained enlightenment; One is to commemorate the day when Princess Wencheng arrived in Lhasa. On this day, religious commemorative activities will be held all over Tibet. Some Tibetans in Yunnan even went to the desert mountain in Weixi County to worship, and there was a ceremony of "turning knots" (going around the mountain).

Characteristics of Sagadawa Festival:

Doing good is the characteristic of Sagadawa Festival, so in this special festival, kowtowing believers can be seen everywhere on the streets of Lhasa, perhaps just to pray, but some people even want to realize a wish in their hearts.

April 15 in Tibetan calendar is the climax of charity. People have been giving alms since early in the morning. On this day, whenever Tibetans meet beggars, whether monks or beggars, they will be very willing to give alms. Of course, many poor people will not let this good day go easily. Therefore, Sagadawa Festival also has a name: "Poor People's Day".

Generally speaking, Tibetans who usually like to eat yak meat will be vegetarian on April 8 and 15 of the Tibetan calendar.

Buddha exhibition festival

Held in Lhasa and Shigatse.

Tibetan calendar time: May 14-16.

Gregorian calendar: July 14-16.

Buddha exhibition is one of the most solemn ceremonies of Tibetan Buddhism. The whole process of Buddha exhibition is solemn and solemn, which shows the incomparable piety and reverence of Tibetan Buddhist believers to the Buddha. Every year around May 15 of the Tibetan calendar, Tashilhunpo Temple will hold a grand Buddhist exhibition. There are three large embroidered Buddha statues on the sunny side wall of the Buddhist Pavilion, namely, the original Buddha (Infinite Light Buddha), the present Buddha (Sakyamuni Buddha) and the future Buddha (Jumba Buddha), which are 32 meters high, 42.5 meters wide at the bottom, 38 meters wide at the top and 3.5 meters thick. Countless believers, bearing in mind the past and the future, jostled shoulder to shoulder, just to climb the Buddha platform and worship the Buddha statue at close range in order to get greater blessings.

Tibetan Mulin Sangji (Karin Festival)

Host areas: Lhasa, Qamdo and Sanye.

Tibetan calendar: May 15.

Gregorian calendar time: July 16

The forest in Tibet is said to commemorate the conquest of all the demons in Tibet by Master Lotus Peanut in May of the Year of the Monkey. On this day, Tibetan people who love nature and are good at singing and dancing, dressed in festive costumes, came to the tree-lined Karin with highland barley wine, buttered tea and various delicacies, set up tents, ate, drank, danced and enjoyed nature to the fullest. Each tent also invited each other, and folk artists came here to perform. This festival usually lasts for a month.

Shoton/Sho Dun festival

Venue: Lhasa

Tibetan calendar time: June 30th.

Gregorian calendar time: August 30th-September 5th.

Xuedun Festival evolved from religious culture, in which the Tibetan word "snow" is yogurt and "rice" is a banquet, so it is also called "Yogurt Festival". At first, it was to pay monks for the people, and later it gradually evolved into a Tibetan opera performance. During the festival, people gather together to bask in Buddhism, Tibetan opera, pass by Karin equestrian performance and other activities, which can not only feast their eyes, but also feel the peace bred in the excitement and find the answer about the distance.

Naqu horse racing festival

Venue: Naqu

Tibetan calendar time: to be determined

Gregorian calendar: August10-August 15.

Naqu Horse Racing Festival is one of the biggest traditional festivals in northern Tibet. At the Horse Racing Festival, you can appreciate the national culture worshipped by the Tibetan people and the heroism and passion of Tibetan compatriots. Horse racing festival follows Gesar's custom of holding horse racing and archery before each expedition. Gesar himself won the horse race and was praised as the king by the masses. Therefore, in the belief of Tibetan hero worship, strength, courage and wisdom have become the objects people yearn for and worship, and have become the symbol of measuring men's value. This worship custom culture is deeply rooted among the Tibetan people.

Bath Festival [within 7 days of the first half of July in Tibetan calendar]

Venue: Lhasa

Tibetan calendar time: July 6-July 12.

Gregorian calendar time: September 16.

During the bathing festival, Tibetan compatriots, men, women and children, should take a good bath in the nearby rivers and streams and enjoy themselves in the water. After bathing, people light fire, heat butter tea, drink highland barley wine, eat sweet Baba, talk about the past and present, and play string songs. Bath Festival has a history of more than 700 years. It is said that a long time ago, there was a famous doctor with superb medical skills in Tibetan areas. In order to alleviate people's suffering, he often treats people's diseases and saves the lives of many patients. He was honored as the king of medicine because of his superb medical skills and saving lives. Shortly after Yao Wang's death, Tibetan areas suffered from plague, and countless people and animals died. People miss the drug king more and more and hope to get treatment. One night, a dying patient was inspired by the drug king in his dream, saying that bathing in the river when the stars were shining could cure him. After bathing, the patient really recovered. The news spread, all the sick people jumped into the river to take a bath, and everything was fine. Later, every year in late summer and early autumn, people would take a bath in the nearby river. Over time, it became a bathing festival.

Fruit Festival

Location: All parts of Tibet

Tibetan calendar time: end of July

Gregorian calendar time: end of September

"Wangwang" means crops in Tibetan, and it is called "Wangka" or "Xingka" in Tibetan. "Fruit" means circle, which means circle around the crops, and the harvest is in sight. Every year, when crops around the world are ripe, people will wish a bumper harvest through this unique ceremony of turning over the land and ridges. Nowadays, although the fruit festival has a religious form of offering sacrifices to gods, it has become the main form of folk entertainment and sports activities in the process of Tibetan people praying for a bumper harvest. In Lhasa, Shannan, Shigatse and other places in Tibetan areas, there has always been the habit of fruit festivals. There is no exact time, but it depends on the maturity time of crops.

Buddha's ascension day

Location: All parts of Tibet

Tibetan calendar: September 22nd.

Gregorian calendar time: 165438+ 10/9.

"Heavenly Sacrifice" or "Heavenly Sacrifice" is called "Laba vs Qin" in Tibetan. On this day, monks will recite Buddhist scriptures as usual, welcome the Buddha back to earth, promote Buddhism and help all beings. Tibetan Buddhism believes that ascensiontide is one of the major festivals of Buddhism and the most auspicious day. On that day, the deeds of good and evil will increase by a billion times. Therefore, practitioners should grasp this day of ascension, cultivate bodhicitta, support the three treasures, and give alms to all beings to complete this day. During this period, if you can do good deeds, recite scriptures, release people, light lamps and give alms, your merits will be rewarded.

Auspicious mother's day

Location: All parts of Tibet

Tibetan calendar: October 15th.

Gregorian calendar: 65438+February 65438+February.

Auspicious mother's day is called "chasing the sun" in Tibetan, also known as "fairy festival" Every year on 10 and 15, all monks in Muru Temple hold a grand annual sacrifice to Wang Zun, the custodian of Jokhang Temple in Lhasa. /kloc-In the evening of 0/4, the monk invited the Bodhisattva Buddha to the Sakyamuni Buddha Hall and sat opposite the Sakyamuni Buddha. 15 In the morning, the sun rose and monks and nuns came to Bajiao Street with their heads on their heads. Many kind men and women present presented Hada to Tianmu police. After a series of activities to reduce their mood, they returned to Jokhang Temple, where Tianmu Mountain was sitting on the original throne. On that day, Tibetan girls will make a wish in front of the statue of goddess and go to Barkhor Street in groups of three or five to ask for money in the name of offering sacrifices to the goddess. On this day, men are particularly generous and will not give alms.

the Lantern Festival

Location: All parts of Tibet

Tibetan calendar time: October 25th.

Gregorian calendar time: 65438+February 2 1.

Lantern Festival, also known as "Five Festivals", is a religious festival for Tibetan people in Tibet, Qinghai, Sichuan and Gansu provinces. Lantern Festival is an activity to commemorate the death of Master Zong Kaba, a Buddhist reformer and founder of Gelug Sect. On this day, herdsmen in temples and villages belonging to this sect will light butter lamps on shrines inside and outside temples and on scriptures at home, day and night. During the Lantern Festival, people will wear festive costumes and gather in front of the temple to listen to Buddhist masters chanting the "Six-character True Sutra" like gods praying and kowtowing.