Tihar Festival Of Lights Nepal

It is taken as second greatest festival after dashain in nepal.

Tihar festival of lights nepal.

With vibrant lights embellishing kathmandu this joyous occasion is also when the tourists can truly revel in the religious practices displayed in quite an extravagant manner. Tihar primarily a hindu s festival is when the city of kathmandu is decorated with lights colors and flowers adding glitz and glamour throughout the city.

The festival is celebrated by hindus all over the world including nepal and india worshipping and praying for the god of wealth and illumination. And nepalese have spent this colorful lights festival from nov 9 to 13 2015 and oct 28 to nov 1 2016. While each hindu ethnic group in nepal celebrates tihar in slightly different ways the main outlines remain the same everywhere. Tihar festival of lights tihar a great festival of hinduism is also named as deepawali and festival of light.

The festival of light tihar is celebrating as it marks the victory of good over bad. Thousands of lights will be lit up during tihar festival. In where it start at from dark moon. After celebrating ten days of dashain festival the five day festival of lights is beginning on november 6.

As in five days two day is very popular which is laxmi puja bhai puja. Tihar the festival of lights there is something about the celebrations of tihar in nepal which make it truly special. The season is called the festival of lights after the clay lanterns diyas that are lit and stacked around houses every night. Also known as the festival of lights all houses in the cities and villages are decorated with dozens of lit oil lamps which gives them a glittering appearance at night.

As in this festivals it is celebrate for five days. Tihar festival is the second biggest festival of hindu s in nepal it is celebrate by hindus follower. The five day festival of lights known as tihar honors yama the god of death meanwhile the worship of laxmi the goddess of wealth dominates the festivities. On the first day kaag tihar is the day of the crow the informant of yama is worshipped.

Each house stores shopping complex will lit varieties of colorful lights. Since nepal lunar calendar won t be published in advance we couldn t figure out the exact date of tihar festival. Importance of tihar festival in nepal. Tihar festival is also famous as deepawali and considered as the festivals of lights all the city houses.

Tihar festival of lights 13th to 16th november 2020.