Drupka Teshi

{{Short description|Buddhist festival}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}

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|holiday_name = Drupka Teshi

|type = Buddhist

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|imagesize = 250px

|caption = Buddha's descent to earth from The Heaven of Thirty-Three, Mongolia (18th century)

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|observedby =Tibet and Bhutan

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|date = 22nd day of the ninth lunar month

|date2016 = 20 November

|date2017 = 10 November

|date2018 = 31 October

|date2019 = 19 November

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Drug-pa Tse-zhi is a Buddhist festival celebrated to observe Buddha's first preaching of the Four Noble Truths at the deer park in Sarnath. It falls on the fourth day of the sixth month in the Tibetan calendar, around August or July.{{Cite book |last=Johnston |first=William M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iepJAgAAQBAJ |title=Encyclopedia of Monasticism |date=2013-12-04 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-78716-4 |pages=474 |language=en}}