Being totally within
the Buddhist Zone of Nepal, the tsum valley inhabitants participate in all the
regular Buddhist festivities. Losar Buddha’s birthday, Guru Rinpoche’s birthday
and the various cham dances. A celebration called panda occurs in the village
of yarcho above chumling in February,
while a version of mani similar to the one in samagaon, is celebrated in Ripchet
village during April. Ngungne is widely celebrated across tsum in nile, chhule
phurbe rachen mu and piren phu. The festivities of nara khangsar ladrang are
held in chhokang paro and at the isolated cliff clinging monastery of chi phu.
All the main
monasteries have a festival in the early monsoon called Gumba Dhupa chhe ji.
The riotous Dharchyang hore races are held in upper tsum in late September into
October.Around the same time is the Gumba Ngile Ladrang. Also in the autumn a
celebration takes place at milarepa’s cave that is unique to the valley according to local
homestay people. Nara jhong takes place at gonhgye monastery above chhule in
late November. The twin villages of Ngakyu leru hold the Nga ladrang Nara
December.
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