GreatTibetTour.com offers tour packages during Saka Dawa Festival

GreatTibetTour.com, a reputable Tibet travel agency, is offering tour packages for travelers to join the Saka Dawa festival in Tibet.

Saka Dawa, also known as Saga Dawa, is the most important festival of Tibetan Buddhism. In Tibetan, “Dawa” means “month” and “Saka” is the name of a star. This festival falls on the fourth month of Tibetan calendar, when the star “Saka” is visible in the sky, lasts for 15 days and reaches its peak on the 15th day when there’s a full moon. Great Tibet Tour believes that it’s their responsibility to explore the unique Tibetan culture to international travelers. Tour packages to Lhasa and Mount Kailash provided by Great Tibet Tour are aimed to offer travelers a deep cultural experience in Tibet.

We’ve noticed that more and more foreign travelers are interested in Tibetan culture and Buddhism, which makes festival tours to Tibet attractive. According to Buddhism, the Shakyamuni Buddha was born on April 7th of the Tibetan lunar calendar, enlightened and died on April 15th. Tibetan celebrate Saka Dawa to show their devotions and the fourth month is recognized as the most sacred month in Tibetan calendar.

During this month, people try their best to do good actions and avoid evils.

Tibet Tour during Saka Dawa, travelers can have a unique view of festival activities operated by local people. Pilgrims buy animals and release them to nature, keep a vegetarian diet, offer money and food to beggars, donate to monasteries, light butter lamps, kowtow, chant Buddhist scriptures and do kora around sacred places. Tibetan pray in monasteries and temples for happiness, luck, and health for themselves and their families.

This festival is celebrated in every monastery of Tibet, people enter monasteries to burn incense and worship the Buddha, and the grandest event can be seen in Lhasa. Pilgrims from all over the Tibet flood into the holy capital of Tibet to do kora around holy sites. There are 3 major kora routes in Lhasa – the outer route around old Lhasa town, the middle tour around Barkhor Street, and the inner route around Jokhang Temple. Most Tibetan kora around the Lhasa city along the outer route, which covers a distance of about 5, 000 meters, and the event starts from 2:00 am to the night, from the 1st day to the 15th day. During the kora, Tibetan in traditional costumes keeps praying and reciting mantras to show their devotions.

Some devotion pilgrims cross mountains and rivers to the holiest mountain, Mount Kailash, to do kora around it and show their faithfulness. Tibetan believes that kora around the Mount Kailash can purify one’s sin during his lifetime, and according to the Buddhist sutras, do kora, do good things and chant the mantras in the 4th month can get three hundred million times of good karma than in other days.

The Saka Dawa festival will fall on May 29th in 2018, travel to Tibet during this period can offer visitors a rare opportunity to join this grand event.

Great Tibet Tour, with good repute and rich experience, offer tour packages which cover Lhasa and Mount Kailash, where this festival will be celebrated. In Lhasa tours, travelers can see a splendid scenery of the huge crowds of pilgrims kora around this ancient city. Mount Kailash tours can show travelers the holiest mountain of Tibetan Buddhism as well as grand celebrations.