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2009:   Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec || 2010:   Jan | Feb

Year 2136:   Mo.1 | Mo.2 | Mo.3> | Mo.3 (Second) | Mo.4 | Mo.5 | Mo.6 | Mo.7 | Mo.8 | Mo.9 | Mo.10 | Mo.11 | Mo.12

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ABOUT THE CALENDAR

The information provided is taken from the Rigpa Tibetan Calendar, 2008-2009. This calendar is published through the efforts of Sogyal Rinpoche and the Rigpa Shedra Centers. Purchase of the calendar supports the important Tibetan cultural tradition of calendar computation and astrological forecasting, which continues to be used in Tibetan communities around the world.

To better understand this calendar, note the following:

  • In this timeline the western days of the month are listed first, then the Tibetan days (in parentheses).

  • In the Tibetan calendar some days are doubled or omitted. Special days which fall on double days are usually celebrated on the second day, but may be celebrated on the first day if it is more convenient for the practitioner. Special days which fall on missing days are usually celebrated on the preceding day.

In addition to special days, the following days are listed in the Tibetan calendar:

  • Dakini Day—celebration and tsok feast
  • Guru Rinpoche Day—celebration and tsok feast
  • Full Moon
  • New Moon
  • Drubjor (Attainment of Success)
  • Inauspicious days to raise new prayer flags (generally Monday is not a good day and Friday is very good)

  ~  2009  ~  

January, 2009

1 (5)
* New Year's Day (Aus,Can,Ch,EU,Ind,J,NZ,US)

2 (6)
* New Year's holiday (Ch,NZ,Scot,Slo)
* Ngenpa Gu Dzom: nine bad omens occurring together

3 (7)
* Vasant Panchami (Hindu) (Ind)
* Zangpo Chu Dzom: ten auspicious omens occurring together
* Nyi Nak

4 (8)
* Medicine Buddha and Tara Day

5 (9)
* Trongsa Tshechu (Buddhist) (Bt)
* Lhuntse Tshechu (Buddhist) (Bt)

6 (10)
* Guru Rinpoche Day, Guru Dorje Drolo
* Epiphany (Christian) (A,Cy,parts of D,E,Fin,Gr,It,S,Sk,US)
* Trongsa Tshechu (Buddhist) (Bt)
* Lhuntse Tshechu (Buddhist) (Bt)

7 (11)
* Anniversary of Lopon Sonam Tsenmo
* Trongsa Tshechu (Buddhist) (Bt)
* Lhuntse Tshechu (Buddhist) (Bt)

10 (14)
* Anniversary of Sakya Pandita
* Naga Puja Day
* Sojong

11 (15)
* Anniversary of Khenpo Jikme Phuntsok Rinpoche
* National Unity Day (Np)
* Amitabha Buddha Day
* Full Moon

12 (17)
* Coming of Age Day (J)

13 (18)
* Anniversary of Dudjom Rinpoche
* Anniversary of Khamtrul Rinpoche Dongyu Nyima

14 (19)
* Anniversary of Taklung Thangpa
* Makar Sakranti (Hindu) (Ind)

17 (22)
* Anniversary of Drogon Chogyal Pakpa

19 (24)
* Martin Luther King's Birthday (US)

20 (25)
* Dakini Day

21 (26)
* Anniversary of the First Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye

24 (29)
* Dharmapala Day
* Sojong

26 (30)
* Australia Day (Aus)
* Republic Day (Ind)
* Chinese New Year
* Shakyamuni Buddha Day
* Annular Solar Eclipse, actions mulitplied by 10,000 (Southern Hemisphere)
* Night when the fates of those to die in the coming year are decided
* New Moon

(Month 12)
(10th day is missing this month)

27 (1)
* Inauspicious day to hang new prayer flags

29 (3)
* Anniversary of the First Chetsang Rinpoche, Drikung Konchok Ratna

31 (5)
* Vasant Panchami (Hindu) (Ind,Np)

February, 2009

2 (7)
* Groundhog Day (US)

3 (8)
* Medicine Buddha and Tara Day

4 (9)
* Guru Rinpoche Day, Guru Pema Gyalpo
* National Day (Sri Lanka)

5 (11)
* Anniversary of Kangyur Rinpoche

6 (12)
* Waitangi Day (NZ)

7 (13)
* Inauspicious day to hang new prayer flags

8 (14)
* Preseren Day (Slo)
* Nyi nak
* Sojong

9 (15)
* Amitabha Buddha Day
* Full Moon

10 (16)
* St. Paul's Shipwreck (M)

11 (17)
* National Foundation Day (J)

12 (18)
* Anniversary of Kunkhyen Longchen Rabjam
* Anniversary of the First Chungtsang Rinpoche, Drikung Rigdzin Chokyi Drakpa

13 (19)
* Anniversary of Neten Chokling Pema Gyurme

14 (20)
* Valentine's Day (US)

16 (22)
* Independence Day (Lt)
* Washington's Birthday (US)

18 (24)
* Anniversary of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

19 (25)
* Dakini Day
* National Democracy Day (Np)

23 (29)
* Maha Shivaratri (Hindu) (Ind, Np)
* Gutor, averting the negativity of the old year
* Dharmapala Day
* Sojong

24 (30)
* Shrove Tuesday (Christian) Mardi Gras
* Independence Day (Est)
* House cleaning day, according to Tibetan custom
* Shakyamuni Buddha Day
* New Moon

  ~  Losar—Year of the Earth Ox (Cow), Tibetan Year 2136  ~  

(Month 1, Bumjur Dawa)
(15th day is omitted and the 21st day is doubled this month)

25 (1)
* Losar--Tibetan New Year 2136, Year of the Earth Ox
* Anniversary of the 6th Dzogchen Rinpoche, Jikdral Changchub Dorje
* Ash Wednesday, Lent begins (Christian)

27 (3)
* Anniversary of 11th Minling Trichen, Gyurme Kunzang Wangyal

March

1 (5)
* Anniversary of the 1st Dzogchen Rinpoche, Pema Rigdzin
* Anniversary of Rigdzin Kunzang Sherab
* Anniversary of Khenpo Shenga

2 (6)
* Great Lent begins (Orthodox Christian) (Cy,Gr)

3 (7)
* Punakha Dromcho (Buddhist) (Bt)
* National Day (Bg)

4 (8)
* Punakha Dromcho (Buddhist) (Bt)
* Medicine Buddha and Tara Day

5 (9)
* Punakha Dromcho (Buddhist) (Bt)

6 (10)
* Guru Rinpoche Day, Guru Shantarakshita
* Anniversary of Terton Sogyal, Lerab Lingpa
* Birthday of the 12th Gyalwang Drukchen
* Punakha Tsechu (Buddhist) (Bt)
* Inauspicious day to raise new prayer flags

7 (11)
* Punakha Tsechu (Buddhist) (Bt)

8 (12)
* Punakha Tsechu (Buddhist) (Bt)
* International Women's Day - Women's Day (Np)
* North American Daylight Savings begins

9 (13)
* Anniversary of the 1st Dodrupchen, Jikme Trinle Ozer
* Commonwealth Day (Can)
* Mawlid al-Nabi (Mohammad's Birthday) (Islamic)

10 (14)
* Anniversary of Jetsun Milarepa
* 50th Anniversary of the Lhasa Uprising, 1959
* Purim (Jewish)

11 (16)
* Chotrul Duchen, last of 15 days of miracles
* Anniversary of the birth of Garab Dorje
* Anniversary of Marpa Lotsawa
* Holi (Hindu), Hola Mohalla (Sikh) (Ind,Np)
* Chorten Kora (Buddhist) (Bt)
* Restoration of Lithuania's Statehood (Lt)
* Amitabha Buddha day
* Sojong
* Full Moon

13 (18)
* Birthday of Drubwang Tsoknyi Rinpoche (Western Calendar)

14 (19)
* Nanakshahi (Sikh New Year) (Ind)

15 (20)
* National Day (H)

16 (21)
* Anniversary of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo
* Nyi Nak

17 (21)
* St. Patrick's Day (Christian) (Irl, NIrl)
* Naga Puja Day

18 (22)
* Inauspicious day to raise new prayer flags

19 (23)
* St Joseph's Day (Christian) (San Jose)
* Father's Day (parts of B,It,E,M,P)

20 (24)
* Vernal Equinox

21 (25)
* Anniversary of Khenchen Pema Tsewang
* Naga Puja Day
* Dakini Day

25 (29)
* Independence Day (Gr,Cy)
* Dharmapala Day
* Sojong

26 (30)
* Chorten Kora (Buddhist) (Bt)
* Shakyamuni Buddha Day
* New Moon

(Month 2)
(9th day is missing and 25th day is doubled this month)

27 (1)
* Hindu New Year, start of Ramayana week (Hindu) (Ind)

28 (2)
* Anniversary of Orgyen Terdak Lingpa

29 (3)
* European Summer Time begins
* Australian Daylight saving ends (WA)

31 (5)
* Anniversary of Jamyang Shyepe Dorje Ngawang Tsondru
* Freedom Day (M)

April

1 (6)
* National Day (Cy)

2 (7)
* Gomkora Tshechu (Buddhist) (Bt)
* Inauspicious day to raise new prayer flags

3 (8)
* Ramanavami (Hindu) (Ind)
* Gomkora Tshechu (Buddhist) (Bt)
* Medicine Buddha & Tara Day
* Nyi Nak

4 (10)
* Guru Rinpoche Day, Guru Shakya Senge and Guru Loden Chokse
* Anniversary of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche (Western Calendar)
* Gomkora Tshechu (Buddhist) (Bt)

5 (11)
* Australian (ACT,NSW,SA,Tas,V) & New Zealand Daylight Saving ends
* Paro Tshechu (Buddhist) (Bt)
* Palm Sunday (Christian)

6 (12)
* Anniversary of Jetsun Drakpa Gyaltsen
* Paro Tshechu (Buddhist) (Bt)

7 (13)
* Paro Tshechu (Buddhist) (Bt)
* Chhukha Tshechu (Buddhist) (Bt)

8 (14)
* Paro Tshechu (Buddhist) (Bt)
* Chhukha Tshechu (Buddhist) (Bt)

9 (15)
* Anniversary of Gyalton Rinpoche
* Hanuman Jayanti (Hindu) (Ind)
* First day of Pesach (Jewish)
* Paro Tshechu (Buddhist) (Bt)
* Chhukha Tshechu (Buddhist) (Bt)
* Maunday Thursday (Christian)
* Sojong
* Full Moon

10 (16)
* Good Friday (Christian)

11 (17)
* Easter (Holy) Saturday (Christian)

12 (18)
* Easter Sunday (Christian)

13 (19)
* Anniversary of Chakdzo Tsewang Paljor
* Easter Monday (Christian) (Aus, Can, Ch, EU [except Est,M,NL,P,Sk], NZ)
* Inauspicious day to raise new prayer flags

14 (20)
* Anniversary of Do Khyentse
* Vaisakhi, Solar New Year (Sikh) (Ind)

16 (22)
* Last day of Pesach (Jewish)

17 (23)
* Good Friday (Orthodox Christian) (Cy,Gr)

18 (24)
* Anniversary of the third Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche

19 (25)
* Pascha (Easter Sunday) (Orthodox Christian) (Cy,Gr)
* Dakini Day

20 (25)
* Easter Monday (Orthodox Christian) (Cy,Gr)

21 (26)
* Anniversary of Jetsun Taranatha
* Yom HaShoah - Holocaust Rememberance Day (Jewish)