Mani Rimdu
BuddhistSherpa
Dates
| 2083 BS | Starts day after Khojagrat Purnima (15th day of Dashain) — date to be announced | Date to be announced |
| 2084 BS | Starts day after Khojagrat Purnima (15th day of Dashain) — date to be announced | Date to be announced |
When: Starts day after Khojagrat Purnima (15th day of Dashain) (Wikipedia)
Mani Rimdu is a 19-day festival celebrated by Buddhists in the Everest region of Nepal to mark the founding of Buddhism by Guru Rinpoche Padmasambhava.Magnificent shows are put up on at the monasteries of Tengboche, Thame and Chiwong. The Mani-rimdu festival consists of a series of thirteen acts involving various elements of religious ceremonialism, dance and drama. A huge crowd of Lamas and Sherpa meet at the monastery for the welfare of the world. They enjoy the festival with masked dances, prayers and feasts.
Mani Rimdu is observed from the first day of the tenth month of the Tibetan lunar calendar which falls between October and November under the English calendar.
Observed by: Sherpas
Origin
Mani Rimdu began at Rongpuk Monastery in Tibet in the early 1900s, at the initiative of Ngawang Tenzin Norbu, who had studied in Mindroling Monastery, in Central Tibet. Like much of Rongpuk Monastery practice, most of the rituals that comprise Mani Rimdu find their source at Mindroling Monastery, the great Nyingma monastery in Central Tibet.
