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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
Nyenpa Guzom or The Meeting of Nine Evils is no more a national holiday in Bhutan. The day was removed from the national holiday list in 2007. [2] [3] It was removed by the then ministry of home and cultural affairs (now Ministry of Home Affairs) because Bhutan has too many public holidays. Some people argue that, unless Ngyenpa Guzom is ...
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 ...
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]
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.
Traditional Day of Offering (Dzongkha: བུ་ལྭ་ཕེུ་ཝི་ཉིམ; Wylie: buelwa phuewi nyim), known as Chunipa Losar is a traditional Bhutanese New Year celebrated in Bhutan on the 1st day of the 12th month in the Bhutanese lunar calendar. [1]
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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.