Tibetan Festival Guide
Tibetan Festival Guide
Tibetan Festival GuideThis is the greatest religious festival in Tibet. Originated from Tsongkpa in 1409, the founder of the Gelukpa sect. Monks from the Three Great Monastery of Tibet assemble in Jokhang for prayer to Shakyamuni's image as if it were the living Buddha.
1. Butter Lamp Festival
The Butter Lamp Festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the first month every year by the Tibetan in Qinghai and Gansu provinces and it will be held on December, 19th 2011. It s the last day of the Great Prayer Festival. To honor the victory of Sakyamuni in a debate against Heretics,people assemble at the Barkhor Street in Lhasa, worshiping the Buddha in the daytime and by nightfall. People usually light thousands of lamps filled with butter in an intriguing assortment of designs including immortals, animals, flying birds, beasts, and flowers.. The whole festive will last all night. People sing and dance in great joy throughout the night.
2. Exorcism Festival
On the seventh of the second month, those who dress up like ghosts will be driven to the other side of the Darxia River, and can't return within seven days.
3. Buddha Exposing Festival
On the eighth of the second month, the Monasteries will conduct scripture chanting, show the giant Buddha and all kinds of treasures.
4. Congjue
During later February, another dharma ceremony comes off, which is named "Congjue" in Tibetan. The activities are similar to those of the Large Dharma Transmission Ceremony. The only difference is that "Congjue" ceremony is smaller than the other. Therefore, it is referred as the Small Dharma Transmission Ceremony.
5.Saga Dawa Festival
Held by the Dragon King Pond, it was celebrated on the 15th of the fourth month for the Lord Buddha Sakyamuni's birth, enlightenment, death and Songtsan Gambo's wedding with Princess Wencheng sent by Tang Dynasty (618-907). The people including monks and laymen, men and women in Lhapulun don't eat or drink or speak for a day and two nights, it is called"Niannai"festival.
6. The Honkor Festival
It is an occasion that Tibetans celebrate their harvest. "On" indicates "field" in Tibetan, "Kor" with the meaning of "twining round", and "Onkor" means "twining round the highland barley". The festival is popular in the rural areas of ShannanLhasaShigatse.In general, Onkor is celebrated at the end of the seventh month on lunar calendar just before peasants begin to reap their crops. It is said that the Onkor Festival has enjoyed a history of more than1500 years, and first became popular in the valley area of the middle and lower reaches of Yalu Tsangpo River. In order to ensure the plenteous harvest, the Tibet King sbu-de-gung-rgyal asked the hierarch of Bon religion for guidance.
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