Blessed Rainy Day in Bhutan
Blessed Rainy Day in Bhutan is held on September 23. A holiday marks the end of the monsoon season in the country. On this day, all natural water resources in the state are considered sanctified. This event in the third decade of the month September is annual. Help us
On the eve of Blessed Rainy Day, people will fill buckets of water and leave them out overnight to make sure the water gets sanctified at the right time. Then it is a tradition for everyone to take a bath with the blessed water to eliminate diseases, bad karma, bad luck, and other negative influences.
Blessed Rainy Day is the holiday marking the end of the monsoon season in Bhutan. On this day all natural water resources in the country are considered to be sanctifying and citizens are encouraged to take an outdoor bath to be cleansed of "bad deeds, obstructions and defilements" and accumulated bad karma.
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National Day in Bhutan on December 17 (celebrates its National Day on 17 December, in commemoration of the day in 1907 when Gongsar Wangchuk was crowned the first king over a united Bhutan);
Nyinlong in Bhutan on January 2 (or Winter Solstice. Dzongkha: ཉིན་ལོང་, Wylie: nyin long "return of the sun")