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The Grand Summons Ceremony in the first lunar month	Festivals	Date	Activities	Notes
	The Free Captive Animals Festival	On the 8th Day of the 1st lunar month	Captive animals are set free and treasures are visited	Within the yard of Gandain Phodrang
	Buddha Painting Displaying Festival	On the 13th Day of the 1st lunar month	The display of huge Thangkas	The thangka of 54 meters in length and 24 meters in width
	The Cham Dance	On the 14th Day of the 1st lunar month	Grand religious dance	Held in front of the Grand Sutra Hall
	The Butter Lamps Festival	On the 15th Day of the 1st lunar month	The display of butter sculptures by six Buddhist colleges.	Held in front of the Grand Sutra Hall
	Maitreya Encircling the Monastery	On the 16th Day of the 1st lunar month	The Buddha Statue of Maitreya and its offerings are carried around the monastery.	Held in the periphery of the monastery
The Get-together	The Grand Get-together of Villages	From the 8th to 11th Day of the 1st lunar month	All villages have a big get-together with folk performances of singing and dancing.	Held in the public house of every village.
Tibetan Opera	The Performance of Tibetan Opera	From the 6th to 15th Day of the 1st lunar month.	The performance of the Tibet eight great classical operas.	Held within the temple of the Red Hat Sect.
The Grand Ceremony in the second lunar month	The Fete-day	On the 5th Day of the 2nd lunar month	Monks pray and recite sutras.	To mark the attainment of nirvana of the first Jamyang
The Grand Ceremony in the second lunar month	The Treasure Display Festival	On the 8th Day of the 2nd lunar month	Gather for Buddhist lectures or debate on Buddhist doctrines	Monks debate sutras after holding treasures around the monastery.
The Grand Kalachakra Ceremony	The Grand Kalachakra Ceremony	On the 15th Day of the 3rd lunar month	The Grand Kalachakra Ceremony	Held by the Kalachakra College.
The Ceremony in the 4th lunar month	The Saka Dawa Festival	From the 14th to 15th Day of the 4th lunar month	Monks refrain from eating meats, stop from saying and liberate animals.	Attended by monks and crowds.
Xianglang Festival	Xianglang Festival	From the 10th to the 25th day of the 6th lunar month	Monks revel on the vast grassland for several days.	Held on the top of the mountain or on the grassland or around the monastery.
The Buddhist Doctrine Explaining Ritual in the seventh lunar month	The Buddhist Doctrine Explaining Ritual	Held on the 8th Day of the 7th lunar month.	The Grand ceremony of Mila Riba.	Held in front of the Grand Sutra Hall.
The Ceremony to Banish Disaster	The Ceremony to Banish Disaster	On the 29th Day of the 1st lunar month	Religious dance	Held within the summer palace of Jamyang.
Lamp Festival	Butter Lamps Festival	On the 25th Day of the 10th lunar month	All the butter lamps are lighted over night in the Labrang Monastery.	To mark the attainment of nirvana of Tsongkhapa Master

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