Wednesday གཟའ་ལྷག་པ་ (gza' lhak pa) Sa Lhak-ba Mercury
The Tibetan calendar is a lunisolar calendar, that is, the Tibetan year is
composed of either 12 or 13 lunar months, each beginning and ending with a new
moon. A thirteenth month is added approximately every three years, so that an
average Tibetan year is equal to the solar year. The months have no names, but
are referred to by their numbers.
The Tibetan New Year celebration is Losar.
Each year is associated with an animal and an element. The animals alternate in
the following order:
Hare Dragon Snake Horse Sheep Ape Bird Dog Pig Mouse Bull Tiger
The elements alternate in the following order:
Fire Earth Iron Water Wood
Each element is associated with two consecutive years, first in its male aspect,
then in its female aspect. For example, a male Earth-Dragon year is followed by
a female Earth-Snake year, then by a male Iron-Horse year. The sex may be
omitted, as it can be inferred from the animal.
The element-animal designations recur in cycles of 60 years, starting with a
(female) Fire-Hare year. These big cycles are numbered. The first cycle started
in 1027. Therefore, 2005 roughly corresponds to the (female) Wood-Bird year of
the 17th cycle.
Days of the week
The days of the week are named for celestial bodies.
Day Tibetan (Wylie) Phonetic transcription Object
Sunday གཟའ་ཉི་མ་ (gza' nyi ma) Sa nyi-ma Sun
Monday གཟའ་ཟླ་བ་ (gza' zla ba) Sa da-wa Moon
Tuesday གཟའ་མིག་དབར་ (gza' mig dmar) Sa Mik-mar Mars
Wednesday གཟའ་ལྷག་པ་ (gza' lhak pa) Sa Lhak-ba Mercury
Thursday གཟའ་ཕུར་པུ་ (gza' phur bu) Sa Phur-bu Jupiter
Friday གཟའ་པ་སངས་ (gza' pa sangs) Sa Ba-sang Venus
Saturday གཟའ་སྤེན་པ་ (gza' spen pa) Sa ben-ba Saturn
Contact Information
Call our office today to set up an appointment. Learn more about how we can
help you, and learn more about the other services that we can offer you. All
messages we receive will be answered as soon as possible. We look forward to
hearing from you.
- Electronic mail
- General Information:
