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Bum-Chu Festival
Bum means "pot or vase" and chu means "water". This festival is celebrated at the monastery at
Tashiding in the month of January or February.
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Dasain Festival
DASAIN the
biggest and most important festival of the Hindu Nepali population is
celebrated in September-October.
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Drupka Tekshi
This festival celebrates Buddha's first preaching of the four "Noble Truths" to his first five disciples in Deer Park at Sarnath.
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Lhabab Dhuechen
Festival
This festival symbolises the Descent of Buddha from the heaven of the thirty three gods after visiting his mother.
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Losoong
Festival
Losoong: Losoong
marks the end of the harvest season and also the end of the tenth month
of the Tibetan Year.
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Losar
The Tibetan New Year is shared also by the Sikkimese and noticeable with lot of gaiety and festivity.
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Phang Labsol
Festival
At this festival the snowy range of Kanchendzonga
is worshipped for its unifying powers.
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Saga Dawa
Festival
On this day in different years of
his life, Lord Buddha took birth, achieved Enlightenment and attained
Nirvana.
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Tihaar Festival
Corresponding to the Indian festival of Diwali, Tihaar is also celebrated as the Festival of Lights in Sikkim with the lighting of lamps accompanied with traditional caroling called
Deusi and Bhailo.
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