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
5
1
month 5
chu-chu
6
3
me-lung
Birthday of H.H. the Dalai Lama
Tibetan
skip
7
4
chu-chu
8
5
me-lung
9
6
sa-me
10
7
sa-lung
11
◐
8
me-lung
- 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
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.