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.
LU
MA
ME
JE
VE
SA
DI
1
1
month 5
chu-lung
2
2
me-chu
3
3
chu-lung
4
4
me-lung
5
5
sa-chu
6
6
sa-me
Birthday of H.H. the Dalai Lama
Tibetan
7
7
me-me
8
◐
8
chu-lung
9
9
me-lung
10
10
chu-lung
Guru Puja
11
11
lung-lung
12
12
sa-me
13
13
sa-sa
14
14
me-chu
15
●
15
chu-chu
Tsamling Chisang
Sojong
16
16
sa-me
17
18
sa-chu
skip
18
19
chu-lung
19
20
sa-sa
20
21
sa-me
21
22
me-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 décembre 1999 to 27 février 2101.