Saga Dawa, the triple blessed Buddhist festival was celebrated across the State with traditional gaiety and religious fervour. A large number of monks and devotees carried out a solemn procession, lugging sacred Kanjyur texts on their shoulders and making a parikrama of the streets of Gangtok. The rally organized by Dechen Choeling Gompa, Sichey took a round of NH 31-A and Zeropoint before coming back to the monastery. Since the wee hours of the morning, a large number of people visited different monasteries in their localities to make offerings and prayers. Speaking on the importance of Saga Dawa, Pemba Dorjee one of the monks of the monastery said, the festival is considered as the holiest of the holy Buddhist Festivals. On this day in different years of his life, Lord Buddha took birth, achieved Enlightenment and passed away attaining Nirvana. Also, recitations of sacred Kanjyur and Tenjyur texts were held at the monastery since last few days culminating on the fifteenth day i.e. on May 27. Kanjyur or translated works consist of work in about 108 volumes supposed to have been spoken by Buddha Shakyamuni. All texts presumably had a Sanskrit original, later translated into Tibetan.
