Tibetan Calendar
This year
2026 Fire Male Horse
- Tibetan me pho ta
- Losar 18 February 2026 – 6 February 2027
- Cycle year 40 of rabjung 17
- Royal year 2153
Five elements, twelve animals, male and female by turns: the same pair comes back only after sixty years - one rabjung. A year begins at Losar, not in January.
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1991 Iron Female Sheep
- Tibetan chak mo luk
- Losar 15 February 1991 – 4 March 1992
- Cycle year 5 of rabjung 17
- Royal year 2118
The days themselves begin in 2000 - this far back the calendar keeps the year, not its days.