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
4
18
chu-lung
5
19
me-chu
6
20
chu-lung
7
21
me-lung
Ling Rinpoche — Parinirvana
8
22
sa-chu
9
23
sa-me
10
24
me-me
11
25
chu-lung
Gaden Ngamchö
Guru Puja
12
26
me-lung
13
27
chu-lung
14
28
me-lung
15
○
30
sa-sa
skip
16
1
month 11
sa-sa
Sojong
17
2
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 december 1999 to 27 februari 2101.