| Some Festivals
in Myanmar (Burma) for 2006
(for 2007
: )
Updated 7 September 2006.
Festival dates are based on a lunar calendar and set-up by the board of trustee of the pagodas. We are trying to be as accurate as possible, but check often this page for update information.
If you need additional information about one festival, please contact us.
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| Ananda Pagoda
Festival |
| |
Bagan |
17-01-06 |
08-01-06 |
Bowls of alms filled with crops are offered to
Buddhist
monks who all wait in a long line.Pilgrimage and holiday
outcoming on country oxcarts can be seen. |
| Naga New Year
|
| |
Layshi |
12-01-06
|
13-01-06 |
Gayals are slaughtered in sacrifice follow by
singing,dan-
cing and drinking local alcoholic beverages through the
whole night by the huge bonfire. |
| Kyaik Khauk
Pagoda Festival |
| |
Siriam |
17-03-06 |
25-03-06 |
Maintaining the heritage of donating
drinking water to all
by descendants of the first donor family is amazing. |
| Mahamuni Pagoda
Festival |
| |
Mahamuni Mandalay |
15-02-06 |
18-02-06 |
Incense are burnt in large flame in
symbolic of offering
heat to the great image. |
| Inndaw Gyi
Pagoda Festival |
| |
Inndaw Gyi |
25-02-06 |
03-03-06 |
Ceremony sponsored by Kachin Buddhist. |
| Pindaya Cave
Festival |
| |
Pindaya |
19-03-06 |
24-03-06 |
Typical Taung Yoe Pagoda festival.Different ethnic
minor-
ities can be seen. |
| Nam Pan Ceremony
|
| |
Inle Lake |
10.03.06 |
14.03.06
|
The sight of numerous monks who come
in boats to re-
ceive food offering is striking view. |
| Bo Bo Gyi
Nat Festival |
| |
Monywa |
15.03.06 |
17.03.06 |
Bo Bo Gyi is belived to have mastered high level
alchemi-
cal practices and to have expired to become nat. |
| Shwe Maw Daw
Pagoda Festival |
| |
Bago |
23.03.06 |
04.04.06 |
Very famous festival in Myanmar. Theatrical artists
perform on stage with full force to show their counterparts
to win future performance contracts. |
| Water Festival
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| |
All over the country |
13.04.06 |
17.04.06 |
The festival is held prior to MyanmarBuddhist
New Year in order to
cleanse away evil deeds of the past year with water.
Huge water figthing all over the country during 4 jours. Very
funny for everybody. The major festival in Myanmar. |
| Shithoung
Pagoda Festival |
| |
Mrauk U |
29.04.06 |
06.04.06 |
Dummy Boat race on land,real boat race and water
spla-
shing in Mrauk U canal on full moon day.Tradional Wrest-
ling competition are held at the foot of the Pagoda. |
| Dhanu Tar
Pwe |
| |
Pindaya |
12.01.06 |
15.01.06 |
Single Dhannu throw roasted lablab
beans at one another
in a show of love. |
| Wicker ball
ceremony |
| |
Mandalay Mahamuni |
03.06.06 |
30.06.06 |
Traditional wricker ball players from all over
the country par-
ticipate in the month long contest that tradition has going
on over 70 years.This is the best event to watch Myanmar
tradional Chin Lone(cane ball)playing match. |
| Waso Full
Moon Festival |
| |
All over the country |
09.07.06 |
09.07.06 |
The day Buddha preached his first sermon is commem-
orated .Monks are confined to the monastery by Buddh-
ist code of conduct during the 3 months long Buddhist lent.
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| Shwe Kyun
Pin Nat Pwe |
| |
Mingun |
25.07.06 |
01.08.06 |
Myanmar's last barter market where natives trade
by ex-
change of commodities while celebrating spirit dance. |
| Taung Byone
Nat Pwe |
| |
Mandalay |
03.08.06 |
08.08.06 |
Held for worshipping two very important spiritual
figures.
Major gathering spot for spiritual mediums. |
| Yadanagu Nat
Pwe |
| |
Amrapura |
26.08.06 |
28.08.06 |
Known as mother Taung Byone festival.Most enjoyable
because of the rowing boat trip to the site.Spirit dance is
rampant. |
| Bo Min Khan
Memorial |
| |
Mount Popa |
09.09.06 |
15.09.06 |
Bo Min Khan is remembered for his
higher attainment in
mediation practice. |
| Phaung Daw
Oo Pagoda Festival |
| |
Inle Lake |
22.09.06 |
09.10.06 |
Four Buddha images are ceremoniously tugged clockwise
around the lake on the royal barge by leg-rowing boats.
Leg-rowing boat races are held throughout the event.
Details of the festival day by day
2006 :
here
2007 :
here
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| Kyauktaw Gyi
Pagoda Festival |
| |
Mandalay |
07.10.06 |
20.10.064 |
The image was cast out of a single
piece of a labster in 1864 under the guidance of King Mindon. |
| Dummy Elephant
Festival |
| |
Kyaukse |
14.10.06 |
20.10.06 |
Numerous life-size paper dummy elephants
sing and dan-
ce to the accompaniment of music. |
| Thadingyut
Festival of light |
| |
All over the country |
5.10.06 |
7.10.06 |
To mark the day Lord Buddha came down from the
Cele-
stial Abode after spending three months of Buddhist len
there.Buddha's return is remembered and commemorated
through out the country woth colourful illumination. |
| Indein Pagoda
festival |
| |
Inle Lake |
13.10.06 |
14.10.06 |
Buddhist ceremony and traditional festival at
this old pagodas site on the shore of the Inle Lake. |
| Shwezigon Pagoda
Festival |
| |
Bagan |
27.10.06 |
04.11.06 |
Candle lights and fireworks are carried
in procession be-
fore offering to the pagoda. |
| Balloon Flying
Festival |
| |
Taungyi |
27.10.06 |
04.11.06 |
Hot-aired balloons are released day
and night competing
over their beauty and altitude they gain.Day time flying is
meant for competition of animal figures and night time is
for beautiful fireworks. |
| Robe Weaving
Contest |
| |
All over the country |
20.11.06 |
21.11.06 |
Groups of young women take part of
competitions held
on the platforms of the pagodas.The robe is to be finished
flawlessly overnight and offered at dawn to the Buddha
images around the pagodas. |
| Phoe Win
Taung Cave Ceremony |
| |
Monywa |
27.10.06 |
05.11.06 |
The one and only market where leaves,fruits,roots,thorns,
tumbers,stems of any herbal value from the western wild-
erness of Chindwin river are sold on a large scale. |
| Candle
Light Event - Swhedagon Pagoda |
| |
Shwedagon pagoda
|
03.11.06 |
05.11.06 |
On fullmoon day number total 9999 candles are
ceremo-
niously at midnight .Visitors are served with mixed salad
of Maezali buds,believed to possess powerful,magical
and medicinal properties if eaten at this time. |
| Kaung
Mu Daw Pagoda Festival |
| |
Sagaing |
06.10.06 |
14.10.06 |
The best spot to watch Myanmar Puppet.Pilgrimge
and
holiday outings on country oxcarts can be seen. |
| Kakku
pagoda festival |
| |
Taungyi - Kakku |
11-03-06 |
13.03-06 |
Pao's tribe festival |
| THanbboddhay
pagoda festival |
| |
Sagaing |
03.11.06 |
05.11.06 |
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| New
rive festival |
| |
Kayingtong |
25.12.06 |
29.12.06 |
Dances and traditional competition. |
| Mont
Popa festival |
| |
Mont Popa |
03.12.06 |
04.12.06 |
Thousands of people come to see the
"nats" festival. Very popular in Myanmar. |
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