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Monlam Chenmo Festival : Ladakh

Monlam Chenmo Festival : Ladakh

The annual five-day-long ‘Monlam Chenmo’ Festival, began recently in Ladakh.

  • Monlam Chenmo is an annual five-day-long Great Prayer Festival of Ladakh.
  • It is a mass prayer camp by Buddhist monks and nuns for world peace and happiness.
  • The annual Mass Prayer is resuming this year after three years of discontinuation due to Covid.
  • The event is being organised by the All Ladakh Gonpa Association.
  • It is a major annual prayer of the Sangha Community of Ladakh gathered at one platform.
  • The Festival falls on the 21st to 25th days of the third month of the Tibetan lunar calendar.
  • It is being held since 1991.