Drupka Teshi Explained

Holiday Name:Drupka Teshi
Type:Buddhist
Observedby:Tibet and Bhutan
Date:22nd day of the ninth lunar month
Date2016:20 November
Date2017:10 November
Date2018:31 October
Date2019:19 November

Drug-pa Tse-zhi is a Buddhist festival celebrated to observe Buddha's first preaching of the Four Noble Truths at the deer park in Sarnath. It falls on the fourth day of the sixth month in the Tibetan calendar, around August or July.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Johnston, William M. . Encyclopedia of Monasticism . 2013-12-04 . Routledge . 978-1-136-78716-4 . 474 . en.