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Fabulous
Festivals
Kagyat
sanee(28Th -29th days,10th Tibetan
month) Dances at several monasteries. effigies are burnt representing
destruction Of evil and inviting an auspicious new year.
Lossong :
celebrating sikkim new year ,Family gathering archery contests.
Enchey
Chaan
(18th -19 th days, 11th tibetian month)
Ritual dances at enchey monastery,with elaborate costumes and masks.
Maghi
Sankranti
(1st day .Nepal Month Magha) Hindus ritually
bathe at a holy Spot
celeberating springs arrival.
Guthor Chaam
( 2 days prior to losar) dances at rumtek and pamayangtse
monasteries welcome the Tibetan new year.
Losar :(
Tibetians New years day) celebrated for several days at home and in
monasteries.
Bum-Chu :
(15th day, 1st Tibetian Month) Blessing and
celebrations at Tashiding.The Bum-chu is a scraed water vessel whose
water level toretells the luck of the year ahead.
Flower
Festival
(Through out spring) white hall.Gtk.
Saga Dawa
(15th
day full moon,4th tibetian month) the triple blessed
festival, celebrates Buddha’s
incarnation. Enlightenment and mahapri-nirvana,Procession of monks and
Buddhist devotees carrying the Holy scriptures in most of the important
monasteries of sikkim.
Tse-chu-chaam
(10th day, 5th Tibetan month)
spectacular black hat dances at Rumtek Monastery.
Srukpa
Tseshi
(4th day, 6th Tibetian Month) prayers at
the main monasteries in sikkim celebratate buddha’s first teaching of
the four noble truth.
Tenisong
Lho Dum Fat
Lepcha festival worshipping Mt.Tendong,focus of many lepcha
Myths.
Pang
Lhabsol
Saness at pemayangtee celebrate the treaty of brotherhood
between lepcha And
bhutia and honour the guardian deities Mt.Kanchendzonga and yahdue. This
festival is unique to Sikkim where the snowy range of Kanchendzunga is
worshipped for its unifying powers.
Dasain
(10
days,Hindu month of Ashwani devotees pay honvage with blood sacrifice to
the supreme goddess durga .Family members receive a tika –a red powder
mask on the fore head.
Diwali
3,weeksd after Dasain ,hindu month of kartik festival of Lights,
inviting
Lakshmi, goddess of wealth into every home.
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