The Butter-lamp Festival was celebrated in Tibet on Dec.27, 2013 (Oct. 25 in Tibetan calendar) in Ganden Monastery to commemorate the death of Tsongkhapa, the founder of the Gelug Sect of Tibetan Buddhism.
It is also called Illumination Day and “Ganden Ngachod” in Tibetan language. On this day, monasteries and believers of the Gelug Sect would light butter lamps in the scripture halls and on the windowsills day and night as a religious offering to the great Buddhism master Tsongkhapa since he passed away in 1419.
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