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Source: [1] 2 January – Winter solstice (Nyi 30 January – Traditional Day of Offering 21–23 February – Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the King 28 February 1 March – Losar New Year
Nyilo (Dzongkha: ཉི་ལོག་; Wylie: nyi log; "return of the sun"; also known as Nyinlog) is a traditional new year of the Shar and Wang region of western Bhutan celebrated annually. [1] It falls in the 11th month of the Bhutanese calendar, which corresponds to early January. [2]
Public holidays in Bhutan consist of both national holidays and local festivals or tshechus. While national holidays are observed throughout Bhutan, tsechus are only observed in their areas. [1] Bhutan uses its own calendar, [2] a variant of the lunisolar Tibetan calendar. Because it is a lunisolar calendar, dates of some national holidays and ...
It is widely celebrated in Buddhist Asian countries including Tibet, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand and Laos, where the celebration corresponds to local calendars. Lha Bab Duchen is an annual Buddhist festival celebrated to observe the Buddha's return from the God's realm, known as Indra's realm of the Heaven of the Thirty-Three.
In Tibet, India and Bhutan these festivals may include the traditional cham dance. Lunar New Year festivals of Buddhist countries in east, south and southeast Asia also include some aspects of Buddhist culture, but they are considered cultural festivals as opposed to religious ones.
The holiday is celebrated on various dates depending on location (Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, India) tradition. [3] [4] The holiday is a new year's festival, celebrated on the first day of the lunisolar Tibetan calendar, which corresponds to a date in February or March in the Gregorian calendar. [1]
In Thailand, the name Buddhist Era is a year numbering system shared by the traditional Thai lunar calendar and by the Thai solar calendar. The Southeast Asian lunisolar calendars are largely based on an older version of the Hindu calendar , [ 1 ] which uses the sidereal year as the solar year.
In South Asian and Southeast Asian countries (except Vietnam and the Philippines) as well as Mongolia, Buddha's birthday is celebrated on the full moon day of the Vaisakha month of the Buddhist calendar and the Hindu calendar, which usually falls in April or May of the Western Gregorian calendar. The festival is known as Buddha Purnima, as ...