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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.

July 2024

Today Tibetan months 5·6 previous
MO TU WE TH FR SA SU
1 25 chu-lung Guru Puja 2 26 me-me 3 27 me-chu 4 29 sa-lung skip 5 ○ 30 sa-lung Sojong 14 6 1 month 6 previous sa-chu Birthday of H.H. the Dalai Lama Tibetan 7 2 me-lung
8 3 me-chu 9 4 me-chu Chökhor Düchen 10 4 me-chu ×2 11 5 me-lung 12 6 sa-me 13 7 sa-lung 14 ◐ 8 me-lung
15 9 chu-lung 16 10 me-lung Guru Puja 17 11 me-chu 18 12 sa-lung 19 13 sa-sa 20 14 sa-chu Sojong 21 ● 15 me-chu
22 16 sa-chu 23 17 sa-me 24 18 chu-chu 25 19 sa-lung 26 20 sa-me 27 22 sa-chu skip 28 23 me-chu
29 24 chu-lung 30 25 me-me Guru Puja 31 26 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 February 2101.