Festival of Sikkim 5 page paragraph
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Top 5 Sikkim Festivals
Saga Dawa
Pang Lhabsol
Losoong or the Sonam Losar
International Flower Festival
Losar is the Tibetan New Year
Explanation:
It is an important day for the Mahayana Buddhists as it celebrates the three most important phases of Gautama Buddha – his birth, his enlightenment and his attaining nirvana. This triple celebration, which is the biggest in Sikkim, is observed on the full moon of the fourth month of the lunar calendar of the Buddhists and typically falls between the end of May to beginning of June – what the rest of India celebrates as Buddh Poornima. The day is celebrated with people paying a visit to the Sikkim monasteries and offering lamps of butter to show their devotion and love
It is unique as it celebrates nature. The festival and all its celebrations are surrounding the third highest peak in the world, the Kanchenjunga or Khangchendzonga. Besides celebrating the peak this festival also honors the treaty signed by Bhutias and Lepchas where all the local deities were welcomed to witness this occasion. Celebrated around the fifteenth day which falls in the seventh month as per their calendar, end of August as per the standard calendar, the festival is a depiction of the deity who is the guardian by the lama who dons the garb and dances. This scenes is accompanies by much joking and laughter
It is the Farmer’s New Year is like the Baisakhi festival of the North where farmers celebrates their bountiful harvest where the lama dances keeping in tradition of the expulsion of the evil spirit and to welcome the new spirit via the New Year.
This festival is held in Gangtok every year in the month of May, is another example of Sikkim’s respect for nature. Orchids, gladioli, ferns, herbs, roses, cacti, creepers, you name it they have it on display. The colorful display and the intoxicating fragrance of so many flowers mingling will definitely soothe your soul.
Festival which is heralded by the Guthor Chaam that witnesses the lamas of Rumtek and Pemayangtse showcasing the traditional and beautiful dance. Celebrated in the month of February, the Gyalpo Losar is about offering flowers to the monasteries, visiting friends and families and hoping for a better year