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.
MA
DI
WO
DO
VR
ZA
ZO
1
2
sa-chu
2
3
lung-lung
3
4
sa-chu
Dragon Boat Festival
Holiday
4
5
sa-lung
5
6
me-me
Pentecost
Holiday
6
7
chu-chu
7
◐
8
me-me
8
9
me-chu
9
10
lung-lung
Guru Puja
10
11
sa-lung
11
12
sa-lung
12
13
me-lung
13
14
me-chu
14
●
15
sa-me
Saga Dawa Düchen
Sojong
15
16
sa-chu
16
17
chu-lung
17
18
sa-chu
18
19
sa-sa
19
20
sa-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 februari 2101.