Laotian Festivals are usually based on
Theravada Buddhism
''Theravāda'' () ( si, ථේරවාදය, my, ထေရဝါဒ, th, เถรวาท, km, ថេរវាទ, lo, ເຖຣະວາດ, pi, , ) is the most commonly accepted name of Buddhism's oldest existing school. The school' ...
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Notable festivals and public holidays
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Boun Bang Fay (ງານບຸນບັ້ງໄຟ)
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Boun Fai Payanak
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Boun Haw Khao Padap Din (ງານບຸນຫໍ່ເຂົ້າປະດັບດິນ)
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Boun Khao Pansa(ງານບຸນເຂົ້າພັນສາ)
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Boun Khun Khao
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Boun Makha Busaa
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Boun Ok Pansa
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Boun Suang Huea
The boat racing festival called Boun Suang Heua or Boun Xuang Heua (Lao: ບຸນຊ່ວງເຮືອ) or Loy Krathong (Lao: ລອຍກະໂທງ) is celebrated every year, particularly in Laos, usually in October, at the end of Buddhist ...
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Boun That Luang
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Boun That Sikhot
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Boun Wat Phu Champasak
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Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year is the festival that celebrates the beginning of a New Year, new year on the traditional lunisolar calendar, lunisolar and solar Chinese calendar. In Sinophone, Chinese and other East Asian cultures, the festival is commonly r ...
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Tết
Tết (), short for Tết Nguyên Đán (Chữ Hán: 節元旦), Spring Festival, Lunar New Year, or Vietnamese Lunar New Year is one of the most important celebrations in Vietnamese culture. The colloquial term "Tết" is a shortened form of , ...
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Hmong New Year
The Hmong people are an ethnic group currently native to several countries, believed to have come from the Yangtze river basin area in southern China. The Hmong are known in China as the ''Miao'', which encompasses not only Hmong, but also other ...
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International Labor Day
International Workers' Day, also known as Labour Day in some countries and often referred to as May Day, is a celebration of Wage labour, labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement and occurs every ye ...
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Lai Heua Fai
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Lao Children's Day __NOTOC__
Lao may refer to:
Laos
* Something of, from, or related to Laos, a country in Southeast Asia
* Lao people (people from Laos, or of Lao descent)
* The Lao language
* Lao script, the writing system used to write the Lao language
** Lao (U ...
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Lao Elephant Festival
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Lao Independence Day
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Lao Issara Day
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Lao New Day __NOTOC__
Lao may refer to:
Laos
* Something of, from, or related to Laos, a country in Southeast Asia
* Lao people (people from Laos, or of Lao descent)
* The Lao language
* Lao script, the writing system used to write the Lao language
** Lao (U ...
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Lao Women's Day __NOTOC__
Lao may refer to:
Laos
* Something of, from, or related to Laos, a country in Southeast Asia
* Lao people (people from Laos, or of Lao descent)
* The Lao language
* Lao script, the writing system used to write the Lao language
** Lao (U ...
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Pi Mai Lao
Lao New Year, called Pi Mai ( lo, ປີໃໝ່, ) or less commonly Songkran ( lo, ສົງກຣານ, ), is celebrated every year from 13/14 April to 15/16 April.
History
Lao New Year is a popular English name for a traditional celebrat ...
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Ok Phansa
''OK'' (spelling variations include ''okay'', ''O.K.'', ''ok'' and ''Ok'') is an English word (originating in American English) denoting approval, acceptance, agreement, assent, acknowledgment, or a sign of indifference. ''OK'' is frequently ...
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Pathet Lao Day
Public holidays in Laos are days when workers get the day off work.
The Lao word for "holiday" or "festival" is (, also spelled ).
Public holidays
Lunisolar public holidays
See also
* List of festivals in Laos
* Culture of Laos#Festivals ...
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That In Hang Festival
''That'' is an English language word used for several grammatical purposes. These include use as an adjective, conjunction, pronoun, adverb, and intensifier; it has distance from the speaker, as opposed to words like ''this''. The word did not ori ...
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Vixakha Bouxa
Vesak (Pali: ''Vesākha''; sa, Vaiśākha), also known as Buddha Jayanti, Buddha Purnima and Buddha Day, is a holiday traditionally observed by Buddhists in South Asia and Southeast Asia as well as Tibet and Mongolia. The festival commemora ...
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Public holidays in Laos
Public holidays in Laos are days when workers get the day off work.
The Lao word for "holiday" or "festival" is (, also spelled ).
Public holidays
Lunisolar public holidays
See also
* List of festivals in Laos
* Culture of Laos#Festivals ...
References
External links
Laos Cultural Profile (Ministry of Information and Culture/Visiting Arts)
{{Asia topic, List of festivals in
Laotian culture
Festivals
A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival co ...
Laos
Laos
Laos (, ''Lāo'' )), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ, French: République démocratique populaire lao), is a socialist ...
Laos
Laos (, ''Lāo'' )), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ, French: République démocratique populaire lao), is a socialist ...