12th or 1st month: Lo gsar, sometimes celebrated in the different settlement clusters to the south, where the villagers live during the winter; many go to sPung mo for Lo gsar. 2nd month: Yul lhaceremony, in which the entire village participates in the yul lha shrine above village. 5th month: Me mchod (fire ritual for the fertility of the crops), which takes place in rotating houses. 6th month: sMan sgrub, begun in 1996, and will henceforth be performed every few years in rotation with other Bonpo villages, at the dgon pa; in the intervening years they hold another dus chen on the first day of the sixth Tibetan month. 6th/7th month: rNam rgyal stong mchod in mTha’ srung mTsho gling. 7th onth: Dus chen for rNam rgyal shes rab rgyal mtshan, the builder of sPu mer monastery. 7thnth: Pilgrimage to Khyungpur, Bla ma chu mig, Jagdul or Shey. 8/9th h: tshogs mchod pa, ceremony for the well-being of animals at the beginning of the frosts and for the expiation of sin incurred during the mass sacrifice of animals throughout the kingdom of Nepal during the national Dasain festival. 9th onth: sa gsol pho lha nd yul lha fferings) in the Yul sa shrine and different houses. 10th onth: mchodr tual for prosperity and health in rotating houses. 10th onth: Ma tri , for six days, at the temple. 11/12th month: Khyungpur pilgrimage.