March 9 – Chogna Choeba in Tibet

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nOnenthing I have never seen before is a lantern-lit parade of giantnsculptures created from colored butter!

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I can’t believe it IS butter!

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nOthernnames for this festival are Chotrul Duchen and the Butter LampnFestival. Yet another name is Ten Million Multiplier Day, because itnis said that the effects of both positive and negative actions arenmultiplied 10 million times today! So…you better make those actionsnpositive!

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nTraditionally,nTibetan Buddhist monks light lamps made from clarified yak butternevery morning (although now they often use lamps made with vegetablenoil). At funerals, a great many butter lamps are lit. The lamps arensaid to help focus the mind as the monks meditate, and they banishndarkness both literally and figuratively. n

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• nMaken your own oil lamps using ideas from “Put It in a Jar”n and “Little House Living.” 

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• nMan,n these Tibetan sculpturesn do not look like they are made from butter, do they? 

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• nCheckn out this Butter Cow Carving videon from Iowa. Now THAT looks like butter! 

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• nTryn your own hand at butter sculpting! n

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Joe Franklin Day 

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nBaronnBliss Day in Belize

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nDaylightnSavings Time begins

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• nn Historicaln anniversaries in March

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• nApriln holidays   

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