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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.

September 2022

Today Tibetan months 7·8
MO TU WE TH FR SA SU
1 5 lung-lung 2 6 sa-lung 3 7 sa-me 4 ◐ 8 sa-me
5 10 sa-chu Tsog skip 6 11 me-chu 7 12 chu-chu 8 13 sa-lung 9 14 sa-sa 10 ● 15 sa-chu Mid-Autumn Festival Holiday 11 16 me-me Sojong
12 17 chu-chu 13 18 me-chu 14 19 chu-lung 15 20 lung-lung 16 21 sa-me 17 22 sa-me 18 23 sa-me
19 24 chu-lung 20 25 me-chu Tsog 21 26 chu-lung 22 27 me-lung 23 28 sa-chu 24 29 sa-me 25 ○ 30 me-me Sojong 14
26 1 month 8 chu-lung 27 2 me-lung 28 3 chu-lung 29 4 lung-lung 30 5 sa-me
  • Tsog the 10th and the 25th — Guru Puja
  • 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.