Chotrul Duchen

Chötrul Düchen
Tibetan name
Tibetan:	ཆོས་འཕྲུལ་དུས་ཆེན་
Wylie transliteration:	Chos-'phrul Dus-chen

Chonga Choepa
Tibetan name
Tibetan:	བཅོ་ལྔ་མཆོད་པ་
Wylie transliteration:	Bco-lnga Mchod-pa

Chötrul Düchen, also known as Chonga Choepa or the Butter Lamp Festival, is one of the four Buddhist festivals commemorating four events in the life of the Buddha, according to Tibetan traditions. Chötrul Düchen closely follows Losar, the Tibetan New Year. This festival celebrates the Buddha’s display of miracles for fifteen days in order to bolster the devotion of disciples.

See also

• Butter lamp

References

• Chötrul Düchen at Namgyal Monastery.
• The Butter Lamp Festival in Lhasa.