According to the Tibetan calendar, Tibetan Buddhists will celebrate the Saga Dawa festival 2022 on 14 June. There is already replaced the Saga Dawa festival date for 2024 on 23 May. When the fourth month brings stars in the sky, then it signifies Saga Dawa. Visit the link above for a detailed itinerary of the Saga Dawa Festival 2024.
Tibetan Buddhists celebrate Saga Dawa, and it is an auspicious time of year. The festival celebrates the honor of Sakyamuni Buddha’s birth. Most Tibetan people are mumbling mantras by rosary in their left hand and small prayer wheel in their right hand. Buddhism pilgrims believe that their good deeds and prayer are accepted thousands of fold times more than usual. So, remember us to organize your Kailash tour if you are interested to attend on the occasion of Saga Dawa 2024.
It is better to know the meaning of Saga Dawa. It is the meaning for Saga “Fourth” and Dawa refers to “Month”. Saga Dawa is the biggest activity of the Tibetan Buddhists. Saga Dawa tour offers you one of the greatest opportunities to know how to celebrate the festival by local people because it is the most important religious festival of Tibetan people. Saga Dawa falls on the full moon of the month and celebrates at Tarboche just nearby the foot of Mount Kailash. You can always follow us to know the date of this festival for the Mount Kailash tour.
Why is it so important to Kora/Parikrama/ circumambulate of Mount Kailash in Saga Dawa? It is a chance or believes to clean the sins and crimes that you have done in your life. That is why the Saga Dawa festival is the most important in Asia for Tibetan Buddhists and in Hinduism. You can see in Saga Dawa festival around Mount Kailash - Flagpole erecting rituals and 3-day circumambulating of Mt. Kailash (Kora/Parikrama) and Lake Mansarovar - Religious walk, holy dip and other activities which related with religion. The same activities can see in Lhasa, Potala palace, and around as well. It is the timekeeping busiest to Tibetan people visiting monasteries during this festival. Tibetan people don’t eat meats during the Saga Dawa festival.
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Deepa ChaudharyPosted Date: Mar 13, 2020
Good Evening Thank you for the information of Saga Dawa. But I just want to know that in which place this festival is celebrated. Hope you will reply to me soon Thank You.
>>> You are most welcome! The Saga Dawa festival celebrates at Tarboche (bottom of Mt. Kailash). It is just on the way to the first day Kora of Mount Kailash. It takes about 45 minutes' walk from Darchen.