 |
| Holi, The festival of colors - Celebrated in Nepal |
Core Treks can give you an opportunity to experience the festivals in Nepal. Nepal is a multicultural, multilinguistic and multiethinic country. Nepal has the people of different religious tolerance among the people.Majority of people in Nepal are Hindus. After hinduism, th next popular religion in Nepal is Buddhism.Besides this, there are many followers of Islam, Christianity, Shikhism, Jainism and Kirat religion.Every religion has its own values and norms.People of every religion can celebrate their festivals according to their culture and traditions. Some festival which is celebrated by different religious communities of Nepal are:
1. Buddha Jayanti:
Buddha jayanti festival is the most sacred day in Buddhist calendar. It is the most important festival of Buddhists and it is celebrated with great enthusiasm. Buddha jayanti falls in a full moon day dedicated to Lord Buddha to mark his triple anniversary- Birthday, enlightenment and death.
2. Gaijatra:
Gai means cow and Jatra means festival in Nepal. This festival is basically celebrated in Kathmandu by the Newari community. We celebrate this festival in the memory of death people of Newar family during the year. This festival falls in the month of Bhadra Nepali month and August – September in English month.
3. Krishnaastami:
Krishnaastami is the celebration of Lord Krishna’s birthday. He is one of the tenth incarnations of Lord Vishnu and the festival is celebrated countrywide by all Hindus.
4. Dashain:
Dashain is a great festival of Hindus. It is our national festival and it is familiar us. Dashain mainly falls in the month of Aswin or sometimes in Kartik too. The goddess Durga is worshipped in this festival.
5. Tihar (The Deepawali):
We all know that we are rich in our culture and festivals. Many Nepali as well as tourist celebrates our festivals. Likewise our second biggest festival after Dashain is Tihar. It is also known as festival of Deepawali. We celebrate this festival for five days. It is celebrated throughtout the world by Hindus in Kartik.
6. Chhath:
Chhath is also one of the major festivals in Nepal. Especially it is celebrated by people of Terai. This Chhath parva is dedicated to the sun god and observed on the fourth day of the lunar calendar during the month of Kartik.
The rising and the setting sun is worshiped during the festival. This festival is celebrated lasts for four days.
7. Teej:
Teej is also major festival that is celebrated in our country. Teej is special celebrated by Hindu women for marital bliss and for the long life of their husbands. Teej is the fasting of women in Nepal and it falls in the month of August or early September. In this day unmarried girls also observe fast for their good husband.
8. Lhosar:
Lhosar is an important Buddhist festival, the Tibetan New Year. It usually falls around February and is celebrated by Tibetans, Sherpas, Gurungs and some of the Tamang who live in the high altitudes.
9. Holi:
Holi is the one of the national festivals of the Nepalese. This festival is a great festival of the Hindus. Generally this festival falls in the month of Falgun. Holi provides great fun and joy. This festival can be said as the festivals of colors.
10. Shivaratri:
Shivaratri is a Hindu festival celebrated annually in the name of the God Shiva. Mahashivaratri festival or the night of Shiva is celebrated with devotion and religious fervor in honor of Lord Shiva, one of the deities of Hindu Trinity. Shivarati falls on the moonless 14th night of the new moon in the Hindu month of Falgun.
