2018 Holiday Calendar of Bureau of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, New Delhi. Bureau will remain close on official holidays.
JANUARY
01, Monday: New Year
26, Friday: Republic Day of India
FEBRUARY
16, Friday: Losar (Tibetan New Year)
MARCH
02, Friday: Chotrul Duchen (Great Prayer Festival)
10, Saturday: Tibetan National Uprising Day
MAY
29, Tuesday, Saka Dawa (Buddha Shakyamuni’s Birth, Enlightenment and Parinirvana)
JUNE
28, Thursday: Zamling Chisang (Universal Prayer Day)
JULY
06, Friday: 83rd Birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
16, Monday: Choekhor Duechen (Buddha Shakyamuni’s First Teaching)
AUGUST
15, Wednesday: Independence Day of India
SEPTEMBER
02, Sunday: Democracy Day of Tibet
OCTOBER
02, Tuesday: Gandhi Jayanti
31, Wednesday: Lhabab Duechen (Buddha Shakyamuni’s Descent from Heaven)
DECEMBER
10, Monday: Nobel Peace Prize Day (World Human Rights Day)
13, Thursday: Ngen-pa Gu-Zom (Nine Bad Omens)
14, Friday: Sang-po Chu-Zom (Nine Bad Omens)