Ladakh Festival
Unrepentantly touristy but entertaining cycle of events starting with a colourful, carnivalesque parade through Leh, then a repeating programme of Buddhist dances (at Spituk), polo (Leh), archery (Alchi) and music.

Hemis Tse-Chu
Birthday of Padmasambhava celebrated with three days of masked dancing. Hemis’ famous three-storey-high, pearl-encrusted thangka (rectangular Tibetan painting on cloth) is unfurled every twelfth year (next 2016).

Guru Tse-Chu Festival
Royal oracles at the modest Stok Gompa , make predictions about the future during Stok’s important Guru Tse-Chu festival .

Matho Nagrang
Monastery oracles perform blindfolded acrobatics and ritual mutila