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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.

May 2021

Today Tibetan months 3·4
MO TU WE TH FR SA SU
1 20 sa-sa 2 21 me-chu
3 22 chu-chu 4 23 sa-me 5 24 sa-chu 6 25 chu-lung Guru Puja 7 26 sa-sa 8 27 sa-me 9 28 me-chu
10 29 chu-chu 11 ○ 30 me-lung Sojong 14 12 1 month 4 me-chu 13 2 me-lung 14 3 sa-sa 15 4 sa-lung 16 5 me-chu
17 6 chu-chu 18 6 me-lung ×2 19 7 me-chu 20 ◐ 8 chu-lung 21 10 sa-me Guru Puja skip 22 11 sa-me 23 12 me-lung Pentecost Holiday
24 13 chu-lung 25 14 me-lung 26 ◉ 15 me-chu Saga Dawa Düchen Sojong 27 16 sa-lung 28 17 sa-sa 29 18 sa-chu 30 19 me-chu
31 20 sa-chu
  • 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.