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Calendar

The Tibetan lunar calendar as the monastery keeps it: the day of the month and its element, the sojong and tsog days, the great Dharma anniversaries and the eclipses.

January 2021

Today Tibetan months 11·12
MO TU WE TH FR SA SU
1 18 sa-lung New Year Holiday 2 19 sa-me Chökyi Gyaltsen — Parinirvana 3 20 me-chu
4 21 me-chu 5 22 me-me 6 23 chu-lung Epiphany Holiday 7 24 lung-lung 8 25 sa-lung Guru Puja 9 26 sa-lung 10 27 sa-me
11 28 sa-chu 12 29 me-chu Sojong 14 13 ○ 30 chu-chu 14 2 month 12 sa-lung 15 3 sa-sa 16 4 sa-chu 17 5 sa-me
18 5 me-chu ×2 19 6 me-me 20 7 chu-chu 21 ◐ 8 chu-lung 22 9 sa-lung 23 10 sa-me Guru Puja 24 11 me-me
25 12 sa-chu 26 13 me-lung 27 14 chu-chu Sojong 28 ● 15 lung-lung 29 16 sa-me 30 17 sa-chu 31 18 me-me
  • Guru Puja tsog — the 10th and the 25th
  • Sojong confession day
  • Tibetan a Tibetan day
  • Holiday a civil holiday
  • ×2 a doubled or skipped lunar day
  • full moon
  • new moon
  • eighth day
  • eclipse
  • earth
  • water
  • fire
  • wind

Tibetan lunar days follow no rule a calendar can derive — a day is occasionally doubled, and occasionally skipped. These are the days as the monastery's own table records them, from 20 December 1999 to 27 February 2101.