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Festivals of Sikkim

Teesta Tea Tourism Festival Nyempa Guzom
Teesta Tea and Tourism Festival is an Nyempa Guzom is a festival that is
inter-state festival celebrated every celebrated within the Monasteries in
year either in November or December at Sikkim. Common people visit and offer
Darjeeling and Dooars of West Bengal and gifts of fruits, sweets & even donations
at Sikkim. The festival is aimed for the and pray for the good will of their
promotion of tourism. The West Bengal family and beloved ones. It falls on the
Tourism, Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council, 6th and 7th day of the 11th month of
and Sikkim Tourism, supported by the Tibetan calendar, which sometime around
Tourism Department of India Government, December - January. This is observed few
jointly organize the festival. It holds days after Loosung.
many cultural programs, water sports, Tamu Lochar
food carnival, toy train ride, and film This festival is celebrated by Gurung
fests. Communities in the state. It is
Sikkimese New Year symbolizes the arrival of Tamu New Year.
Losoong is the New Year for the people of It falls on Pus pandra i.e 15th day of
Sikkim. It generally, falls in the month the nine month of Nepali Calendar, which
of December and marks the end of is sometime during December. This marks
harvesting season. The highlights of the the celebration after a year's hardwork.
festival are Chaam dances and archery This month is barred from any kind of
contests. Losoong festival is also famous ploughing and digging. According to
as Sonam Losoong (Farmers' New Year). It legends, the ancestors of Tamus known as
falls on the 18th day of the 10th month Khemas did a long meditation and Lord
of the Tibetan lunar calendar and dots Buddha himself appeared to them on this
the agricultural New Year when rice and day of Pus pandra and enlightened them.
grains are in plenty. People of Sikkim Thus, this day was very auspicious to
celebrate this day by performing a very them and they then started the Tamu
famous Chaam dance. They also make Buddhism. On this day the Lo (birth sign)
offerings to the gods, both in gompas and changes and is considered propitious for
in their domestic shrines. Sonam Losoong calculating the good and bad scope of
is more of a private affair. People get particular lo whereby the monks declare
up before dawn to take bath and wear new specific prayers to be performed for each
clothes. Later, all the family members lo. All types of decisions are taken and
sit together to pray for peace and debts are repaid on this date. The
prosperity. This festival lasts for 15 festivity lasts for three days.
days.




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